On Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 10:49:49 PM UTC+5:30, Random832 wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016, at 02:53, ICT Ezy wrote: > > >>> 2 ** 3 ** 2 > > Answer is 512 > > Why not 64? > > Order is right-left or left-right? > > You're mixing up order of evaluation with operator associativity. The ** > operator is right-to-left associative, this means x ** y ** z == x ** (y > ** z). Evaluation is left to right, where it matters [i.e. if one or > more of the elements here were an expression with side effects]: first x > is evaluated, then tmp=y**z, then x**tmp. These are two entirely > different concepts.
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