Why is (9**(1/2)) is equal's to 3.0?

Question

i did 9x0.5 and it equal's to 4.5? I don't get it.

Can anyone explain to me how does that work?
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Answer 1

square root of 9 with other words.

Answer 2

Hi! if you elevate a number to a power less than one, this is equivalent to the fact that you extract a square root from the number. square root of nine will be 3.

* is the multiplication operator
* * is the exponentiation operator

please take lesson 5.1 of the python course for beginners