diff --git a/examples/repo_example/hashed_bin_delegation.py b/examples/repo_example/hashed_bin_delegation.py
index 6041216fa3..4fbfbd8231 100644
--- a/examples/repo_example/hashed_bin_delegation.py
+++ b/examples/repo_example/hashed_bin_delegation.py
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ def _in(days: float) -> datetime:
 # Compared to decimal, hexadecimal numbers can express higher numbers with
 # fewer digits and thus further decrease metadata sizes. With the above prefix
 # length of 2 we can represent at most ...
-NUMBER_OF_PREFIXES = 16 ** PREFIX_LEN  # ... 256 prefixes, i.e. 00, 01, ..., ff.
+NUMBER_OF_PREFIXES = 16**PREFIX_LEN  # ... 256 prefixes, i.e. 00, 01, ..., ff.
 #
 # If the number of bins is a power of two, hash prefixes are evenly distributed
 # over all bins, which allows to calculate the uniform size of ...