Exponentiation
Excellent job!
All the arithmetic operations you've done so far have probably either been intuitive or have resembled work you've done in other programming languages (such as JavaScript). Exponentiation, however, might be a new one, so it bears some explaining.
The **
operator raises the first number, the base, to the power of the second number, the exponent. So if you type 2 ** 3
, you get 8
(2 ** 3
is the same as 2 * 2 * 2
, both of which equal 8
). 5 ** 2 = 25
, 2 ** 4 = 16
, and so on.