Peter Marreck

You can swap their definitions and their precedences might swap too :O

I just checked, they seem to. Try this:

>> 5 ** 3 ^ 5
#=> 120

class Fixnum
  alias_method :"__**", :"**"
  alias_method :"**", :"^"
  alias_method :"^", :"__**"
end

>> 5 ** 3 ^ 5
#=> 7776