Python can also perform exponentiation. In written math, you might see an exponent as a superscript number, but typing superscript numbers isn’t always easy on modern keyboards. Since this operation is so related to multiplication, we use the notation **.

# 2 to the 10th power, or 1024
print(2 ** 10)

# 8 squared, or 64
print(8 ** 2)

# 9 * 9 * 9, 9 cubed, or 729
print(9 ** 3)

# We can even perform fractional exponents
# 4 to the half power, or 2
print(4 ** 0.5)

Here, we compute some simple exponents. We calculate 2 to the 10th power, 8 to the 2nd power, 9 to the 3rd power, and 4 to the 0.5th power.