Yanfly 6 Battle Stats Formula?!, Something weird and a question. Options

[Xer0]

CODE

    ATK_CUSTOM_FORMULA_ACTOR ={
    # ActorID => Formula
            1 => "(level^2)"

So the attack for this character is suppose to be level squared. so
1,4,9,16,25 ect....

BUT
3,1,1,6,7,4,5,10,11,8

so I suppose ^ means something different or other stuff is going on in the background.

And the question: I try using division and powers, and even multiplying decimals, and I just get errors. I am pretty sure it's not how I input it. So is there any particular terms I need to know? My goal is to make an exponential formula

I am using Yanfly 6 battle stat script

[Xer0]

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