12-02-2003 11:04									#1
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I just call it a hut

So, does anyone know what the proper name for ^ is?

	12-02-2003 11:05									#2
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Accent circonflexe

	12-02-2003 11:40									#3
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Depends on usage.

	12-02-2003 11:41									#4
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Caret

	12-02-2003 11:42									#5
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If I was typing 4^3, how would I say it out loud?

	12-02-2003 11:42									#6
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"four to the power of three"

	12-02-2003 11:44									#7
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I mean to actually say what symbols they were

e.g. 4 [enter name of ^ here] 3

I've gotten two names for the character, and the name for it in this sense is what I'd like .

	12-02-2003 11:45									#8
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I'd say four cuded.

	12-02-2003 11:45									#9
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	12-02-2003 11:46									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin I'd say four cuded.

You'd make a terrible computer scientist.

	12-02-2003 11:48									#11
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quote: Originally posted by Frozzy I mean to actually say what symbols they were e.g. 4 [enter name of ^ here] 3 I've gotten two names for the character, and the name for it in this sense is what I'd like .

Everyone in CS-land calls that a caret, if they need to pronounce it.

	12-02-2003 12:01									#12
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How about something more geeky?

"Shift + that key next to the Enter key"

	12-02-2003 12:02									#13
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It's "Shift + 6" in North America.

	12-02-2003 12:03									#14
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Of course, all the cool people would say "Shift + the key between 5 and 7"

	12-02-2003 12:03									#15
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I tend not to use it or talk about it, but if I must I think that "doohickey" fits nicely.

	12-02-2003 12:04									#16
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I haven't heard it as 4 "caret" 3 either.

	12-02-2003 12:06									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger I haven't heard it as 4 "caret" 3 either.

What do they call it where you're from?

	12-02-2003 12:07									#18
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quote: caret \Ca"ret\, n. [L. caret there is wanting, fr. carere to want.] A mark [^] used by writers and proof readers to indicate that something is interlined above, or inserted in the margin, which belongs in the place marked by the caret. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

	12-02-2003 12:10									#19
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Accent circonflexe

	12-02-2003 12:11									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Frogger Accent circonflexe

Why do the French have to make everything more complicated? It's as if it's their only purpose in this world...

	12-02-2003 12:12									#21
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Actually, in English, circumflex is a perfectly good word for the symbol.

	12-02-2003 12:13									#22
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The word makes sense when you think about it.

A circumcized man flexing: ^
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	12-02-2003 12:19									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Asher What do they call it where you're from?

We also call it caret (or hat), but not in the case of "4 ^ 3." Circumflex is way wat too complicated.

	12-02-2003 12:20									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger We also call it caret (or hat), but not in the case of "4 ^ 3." Circumflex is way wat too complicated.

What do they call it in the case 4^3? "^" is translated as "to the power of" in CS land, at least the people I talk with, when used in that context.

When identifying it as a symbol, it's a caret (I've heard hat too, but that's just an alias )

	12-02-2003 12:24									#25
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quote: Originally posted by Asher What do they call it in the case 4^3? "^" is translated as "to the power of" in CS land, at least the people I talk with, when used in that context.

Only in some computer languages though. We just call it "to."

Like, "4 to 3." Most of the time it's not ambigious.

	12-02-2003 12:28									#26
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None of the languages I use have ^ overloaded to mean power-of.

Unless C++ has it overloaded. But I didn't think it did, at least with the libs I used...

It's just standard 'net lingo.

	12-02-2003 14:16									#27
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It should be pronounced, from now and for ever as "roof".

And.. a caret is a blinking underscore or pipe, next to where you're writing.

	12-02-2003 14:27									#28
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That's a cursor!

	12-02-2003 14:34									#29
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upright greater than sign.

	12-02-2003 14:36									#30
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It could be an upright less than sign