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[Albert Chan]

(12-29-2020 05:56 PM)Allen Wrote:  Symbolically it does.

This is exactly the reason exponentiation is evaluated from right to left.
(had it been from left to right, we could have rewritten as products of exponents)

lua> pow(2, pow(1.8, pow(1.6, pow(1.4, 1.2))))
9.72086810644022

lua> 2 ^ 1.8 ^ 1.6 ^ 1.4 ^ 1.2
9.72086810644022