Which mathematical operator is used to raise 5 to the second power in python?

Question

Problem:

For the code below I can not get the correct answer:

square = 5

results = list(map(lambda a: 5 * a, range(square)))

for i in range(square):
 print("5 raised to the power of",i,"is",results[i])

 

This code gives the following output:

5 raised to the power of 0 is 0
5 raised to the power of 1 is 5
5 raised to the power of 2 is 10
5 raised to the power of 3 is 15
5 raised to the power of 4 is 20

 

The code is not giving me the actual result. If 5 raised to the power of 2 it should be 25 but the output is showing 10. 

What is the problem in my code can anyone sort out?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

In python to raise a number to the power of another number, you need to use the "**" operator. Where multiplying two numbers only uses one * symbol, the operator for raising one number to the power of another uses two: **.

What you did is you just multiplied the number thats why you are getting this type of results. So your code should be:

square = 5

results = list(map(lambda a: 5 ** a, range(square)))

for i in range(square):
 print("5 raised to the power of",i,"is",results[i])

And you should get the output:

5 raised to the power of 0 is 1
5 raised to the power of 1 is 5
5 raised to the power of 2 is 25
5 raised to the power of 3 is 125
5 raised to the power of 4 is 625

Happy coding.