If you have programmed before, you probably know that dividing is a bit tricky since there are different types of dividing. For a calculator, the result is usually adequate, but the following division may not be what you were expecting:
>>> 3/21
We will discuss what this result is about in several later chapters of this book. Take the cube of 2 as follows:
>>> 2 ** 38
What just happened?
We used the Python shell as a calculator and performed addition, multiplication, division, and exponentiation.