On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:25:29 +0000 Mike Russell wrote:

>Added to this they all seem to use the symbol ^ 
>which wasn't a symbol I ever used in maths (or 
>sums, as we called it at my school). Is it the 
>qwerty keyboard equivalent of something like 
>factorial or square root?

Yes, some thing like - it's the 'exponent sign. So 6^4 means six raised
to the 4th power (= 1296)

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