What Is ** In Python?

Question

I read the following python code:

 a=2**b

I know several languages like c,c++,c#,java... i even googled ** operator without any results.

so what does 2**b means?

Answer 1

It is the exponentiation operator. In your example, a will have the result of 2 to the bth power.

Check out the last entry in the table in this section.

Answer 2

it's simple ** means power, so 2**b means 2 to the power of b