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Exponentiation Operator (** / **=)

Category

JavaScript

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 52)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Provides an arithmetic operator equivalent of Math.pow(), in which the lefthand-side expression serves as the base value, and the righthand-side expression serves as the exponent.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/#sec-exp-operator
• Firefox: In development
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3915

Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Arithmetic_Operators#Exponentiation

Samples: http://www.2ality.com/2016/02/exponentiation-operator.html https://blog.mariusschulz.com/2015/11/24/the-exponentiation-operator-in-javascript

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