In node I happened to use a power operator on a boolean and got some funny results. I guess the '^' operator is implemented as something other than 'power'.
Initially I wrote !!a^3 and got 2. Is it a shift operator or some binary operation?
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4`^` is the bitwise `xor` operator in JavaScript. – Phylogenesis Jan 27 '15 at 13:32
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1If you need to compute the power have a look at `Math.pow()` – Denys Séguret Jan 27 '15 at 13:32
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^ is not used for that, as phylogenesis said, you need to use math.pow, as dystroy says, like this : document.write(Math.pow(3,2)); // that = 9 – Shocklo Jan 27 '15 at 13:34
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In ES6 you should be able to do `a**2` – Denys Séguret Jan 27 '15 at 13:35
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@dystroy: I thought that was ES7/ES2016? https://github.com/rwaldron/exponentiation-operator – Qantas 94 Heavy Jan 27 '15 at 13:45
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@Qantas94Heavy I don't know. It works in 6to5 at least. – Denys Séguret Jan 27 '15 at 13:59