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by bill3478 969 days ago
Is that the power operator or the xor operator?
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vhodges 969 days ago
power: https://www.google.com/search?q=2%5E18
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bill3478 968 days ago
Of the top 10 languages on https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/, only Visual Basic uses ^ as the power operator. Google must really like Visual Basic.
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vhodges 968 days ago
Huh... I've always thought of it as power. It probably comes from my ancient past ;).. Note bc -l it's power of.
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