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From: ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: ^ considered mysterious
Message-ID: <3894@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Jan 91 11:16:26 GMT
References: <1Yz6Dw#3j256N9kwrs12ZPbSl0B78BO=eric@snark.thyrsus.com>
Reply-To: ken@aiai.UUCP (Ken Johnson)
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In article <1Yz6Dw#3j256N9kwrs12ZPbSl0B78BO=eric@snark.thyrsus.com> eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:

>I'm trying to find a source for the use of ^ as an exponentiation operator

Every version of Basic that I knew in 1970 used it.  I think FOCAL did
too.  (Remember when...?)



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