[Diffie Hellman] Add description that a**b means "a raised to the power of b"?

[Gautzilla]

Hey,
I had some trouble with the Diffie Hellman exercise because of the instruction:

A = g**a mod p

Where g**a represents g raised to the power of a.

I thought it was basically a a*b and then struggled correcting my code. Not having a CS background, I was only used to the a^b notation.

Wouldn't it be useful to add a comment specifying that a**b means a^b or a raised to the power of b?

[SaschaMann]

Imo we should just change it to ^ or aᵇ in line with other exercises. Preferably the latter.

[ErikSchierboom]

Agreed. I found the ** unintuitive too.

[SaschaMann]

@Gautzilla do you want to open a PR that changes it?

[Gautzilla]

@Gautzilla do you want to open a PR that changes it?

Yes, I'll do that! (I'm still learning to use git, I hope I'll do it right!)

[ErikSchierboom]

@Gautzilla We have some useful links on how to create PRs here: https://exercism.org/docs/building

[Gautzilla]

@Gautzilla We have some useful links on how to create PRs here: https://exercism.org/docs/building

Thank you, I was reading all that!
I'm learning so much different things here it's insane. Thanks for making all this possible! ;)

[Gautzilla]

#1933

I created a PR addressing this issue.