Python and Flaming Thunder

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Dave Parker schrieb:
>> Who has conducted the research that supports that statement? And since when
>> is ^ the better operator for "to the power of" that **? Because latex uses
>> it? I need to see the elementary school students who use that...
> 
> All of the calculators and textbooks that elementary school students
> use, use "^" for powers.  Just like Flaming Thunder does.  I haven't
> seen "**" for powers since FORTRAN.

I haven't seen a power operator in elementary school at all. And even 
*if* I did see it, it would have been in the raised-text-variant, *not* 
the caret that is a crutch.

Diez