28/06/06, tg-php (AT) gryffyndevelopment (DOT) com
<tg-php (AT) gryffyndevelopment (DOT) comwrote:
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.
, now what languages D 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

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:
28/06/06, tg-php (AT) gryffyndevelopment (DOT) com
<tg-php (AT) gryffyndevelopment (DOT) comwrote:

>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.
>>
>, now what languages D 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