What is the Kotlin exponent operator

Question

What is the exponent operator in Kotlin. I assumed it would be ** but it seems to throw up an error in my code.

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Answer 1

Here's another way to solve this problem:

   "a^b" -> operand1 = (operand1!! + 0.0).pow(value + 0.0).toInt()