On 1-Sep-06, at 11:00 AM, knaveofdiamonds wrote:

> One note of advice - the operator to use is actually ** not ^ as might
> be expected:
>
> irb> 7 ^ 2 # Gives 5
> irb> 7 ** 49 # Gives 49

I hope that's not cut & pasted!  7 ** 49 is a little bigger:

ratdog:~ mike$ irb --prompt simple
 >> 7 ^ 2
=> 5
 >> 7 ** 2
=> 49
 >> 7 ** 49
=> 256923577521058878088611477224235621321607

Mike

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