alt Hacker News2 * 1000 is 2000 ;)
I think you meant 2**1000
the syntax for formatting ate your star https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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Lucasoato • today at 12:24 AM
Wow, I didn't know that you could write
like
this
for
code
blocks nuancebydefault • yesterday at 11:02 PM
Oh that's why i did not get any upvotes /i
For anyone else who, like me a moment ago, doesn't know the meaning of ** but is curious: it's how many (but not all) programming languages express "to the power of", aka 2**1000 = 2^1000