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(5**3)**2 = 15625
5**(3**2) = 1953125
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=={{header|S-BASIC}}==
The exponentiation operator ^ works on both integer and real operands. Numeric constants in expressions are taken to be of type real, which is useful here, because the third result exceeds S-BASIC's manximum integer value of 32767.
<syntaxhighlight lang = "BASIC">
print "5^3^2 : "; 5 ^ 3 ^ 2
print "(5^3)^2 : "; (5 ^ 3) ^ 2
print "5^(3^2) : "; 5 ^ (3 ^ 2)
end
</syntaxhighlight>
{{out}}
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5^3^2 : 15625
(5^3)^2 : 15625
5^(3^2) : 1.95312E+6
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