Might be useful if it was stated at the start of the post exactly what the ^ ope...

saagarjha · on Nov 28, 2019

In context, I think it’s pretty clear that it’s exponentiation. Mostly because the context is math where the meaning is a lot more unambiguous.

namirez · on Nov 28, 2019

I always felt the Fortran exponentiation operator (* *), which is inherited by javascript and php, was more intuitive notation.

samatman · on Nov 29, 2019

Interesting, the caret looks better to my eyes, since the real notation is x², thus x^2 is pointing at where the 2 should be.

But I get the reading of double-asterisk as 'multiplication of multiplication' as well, either is fairly transparent really.

kaoD · on Nov 29, 2019

Indeed. To me C's ^ as xor has always been the weird one since it actually looks like a logical and: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_logic_symbols