Talk:Caret (proofreading)

message: Does anyone really call it a "hat"? I've never heard it referred to it that way before 24.254.155.68 (talk) 00:23, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: TeX does: \hat creates a circumflex accent above the subsequent symbol.  // stpasha »  22:27, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe in the US where few people are familiar with circumflexes, 'hat' is a reasonable nickname because that is what it looks like. OTOH, to call it a Caron is just wrong because that is a free-standing symbol. See also hat operator in maths and stats. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:10, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hat 

message: What about the expression "caret browsing" used for instance to describe in Firefox the functionality triggered by F7 function key ? Ptyxs (talk) 08:14, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caret Browsing 

message: Pronounciation ~ carrot? 86.128.51.192 20:07, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronouced? 

message: What about its mathematical use for exponents?
Isn't this used as a "to the power of" kinda thing?
It is used, and superscript notation is obsolete! PiotrGrochowski000 (talk) 07:05, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it is used where superscript is not available, or sometimes where computer-parsing of expressions is required.  It is not used for displayed formulas when formatting is available.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 09:13, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Math use

message: I consider the claim
 sometimes spelled carat
dubious.
To my knowledge, this is a misspelling, not an alternate spelling.
88.77.152.227 (talk) 02:32, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  carat 

message: The use of ^2 for squaring is only a special case of the more general x^y notation for the y-th power of x. Also, ^ is sometimes used for other mathematical or logical operators, such as xor. 88.238.107.74 (talk) 05:10, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not only squares 

message: Since people have asked about its use to donate mathematic exponents, it's used to donate those when superscript can't be feasibly used (i.e. on low-tech internet forums). CrashGordon94 (talk) 09:57, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  About its math notation use. 

message: According to the ALGOL 60 page, ∧ was actually used for the AND operator (and ∨ for OR), which looks closer to the caret than the upward-pointing arrow, as the text describes it: “[ALGOL 60] which expressed the exponentiation operator as an upward-pointing arrow, intended to evoke the superscript notation common in mathematics”.
This whole sentence thus seems a bit incoherent. DidierLoiseau (talk) 17:54, 23 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The use of the caret for exponentiation can be traced back to [[ALGOL 60]]? 

message: There should be something here about the fact that the flashing marker in most text editors is also referred to as the caret.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.33.179.133 (talk) 13:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: That's mentioned at Caret (disambiguation) and has its own article. I'm not really sure it's worth mentioning here because the hatnote is already bloated enough and can't be expected to duplicate the whole disambiguation page. Not to mention that it's not about the '^' character itself. Opencooper (talk) 18:07, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning Text Cursor 

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