unsupported operand type(s) for ** or pow(): 'str' and 'int' error

Question

Just started coding 2 days ago and decided to build a little BMI calculator, but I keep getting this error, I've tried everything I could find, but had no sucess, can anyone help me understand what I'm doing wrong here? thanks in advance! Image of my coding and error

Answer 1

Your typecasting is not assigned to a variable and you need height and weight in float.

height = float(input("Enter your height in m: "))
weight = float(input("Enter your weight in kg: "))

BMI = weight / (height**2)

Answer 2

Change your code to:

height = float(input(...))
weight = float(input(...))

You're not actually setting the result of float() to the variable.