On May 14, 10:30 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dave Parker schrieb: > > > All of the calculators and textbooks that elementary school students > > > use, use "^" for powers. > > I've never seen this symbol in textbooks. In textbooks, powers are > written using superscript. > > >> Just like Flaming Thunder does. I haven't > > > seen "**" for powers since FORTRAN. > > I haven't seen any language using '^' as the power operator so far - > but I've seen quite a lot of them using it as the bitwise XOR operator.
Excel uses the caret as the power operator. Arguably the worlds most widely used programming environment... Michael Foord http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
