{"id":41606,"date":"2021-05-28T12:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T12:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=41606"},"modified":"2021-05-28T12:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T12:59:07","slug":"comp-sci-php-exponent-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/comp-sci-php-exponent-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"Comp Sci: PHP: exponent operator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about PHP: the tutor mentions its exponent operator.<\/h2>\n<p>In PHP, 3<sup>2<\/sup> is 3**2. This seems to work unless the base is negative. For instance, 2.6**2.9 and 10**(-2\/3) will come out correctly, but (-8)**(1\/3) won&#8217;t, in my experience.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/language.operators.arithmetic.php\">php.net<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about PHP: the tutor mentions its exponent operator. In PHP, 32 is 3**2. This seems to work unless the base is negative. For instance, 2.6**2.9 and 10**(-2\/3) will come out correctly, but (-8)**(1\/3) won&#8217;t, in my experience. Source: php.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2955],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-php"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41606"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41608,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41606\/revisions\/41608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}