On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:25:29 +0000 Mike Russell wrote: >Added to this they all seem to use the symbol ^ >which wasn't a symbol I ever used in maths (or >sums, as we called it at my school). Is it the >qwerty keyboard equivalent of something like >factorial or square root?
Yes, some thing like - it's the 'exponent sign. So 6^4 means six raised to the 4th power (= 1296) David Hoffman -- __________________________________________________________ David Hoffman Photo Library <http://www.hoffmanphotos.com> phone +44 (0)20 8981 5041 fax +44 (0)20 8980 2041 =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
