Python and Flaming Thunder

[Fuzzyman]

On May 14, 10:30 pm, "bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com"
<bruno.desthuilli... at gmail.com> 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/