Algol used ^
More common, historically, is the use of ** as the exponentiation
operator: Fortran, PL/I, perl, python
Curiously, many modern languages -- inexplicably -- don't have an
exponentiation operator: C, Java, Javascript, PHP
John Gunther
Robin Vickery wrote:
On 28/06/06, tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Huh.. thanks for the illustration Robin. Can't say that I did much
with exponents when I've played around with perl or python or C.. and
never worked with Java. You've expanded my view.
Ok, now what languages DO use ^ for exponents?
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is BASIC.
Even Bash uses ^ as an xor operator:
$ echo $(( 7 ^ 2 ))
5
$ echo $(( 7 ** 2 ))
49
-robin
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