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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)
\hat
creates a circumflex accent above the subsequent symbol. //
stpasha »
22:27, 20 November 2012 (UTC)In unit vector notation in linear algebra an i with a caret is called "i-hat." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.162.222.142 ( talk) 22:10, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
I have also heard the sign ^ called "roof" (I don't know how common this is, but I can understand why they call it that). -- Zzo38 ( talk) 04:14, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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)
Pronounciation ~ carrot? 86.128.51.192 20:07, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
What about its use on internet forums, where it can be used to indicate the post is a reply to a previous post, usually determined by the number of carets, e.g. "^^^I Agree,but..." means the poster agrees with what was posted three posts back, not counting the new post. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.83.36.205 ( talk • contribs)
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It is used, and superscript notation is obsolete!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)
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)
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)
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) NOT! Superscripts are obsolete! Caret is used now! PiotrGrochowski000 ( talk) 07:07, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
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)
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)
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@ Spitzak: This article is about actual caret signs, not something else. Recognising wp:common name and all that, but U+005E is not a caret, it is a circumflex. It just got called a caret by monolingual programmers in the US, because US English never sees any words that have a circumflex diacritic. Rather than just revert your edit first, per WP:BRD, let's discuss first. What I propose is that the article have a hatnote that reads something like this:
Comments? -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 22:54, 17 June 2020 (UTC)
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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)
\hat
creates a circumflex accent above the subsequent symbol. //
stpasha »
22:27, 20 November 2012 (UTC)In unit vector notation in linear algebra an i with a caret is called "i-hat." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.162.222.142 ( talk) 22:10, 20 October 2013 (UTC)
I have also heard the sign ^ called "roof" (I don't know how common this is, but I can understand why they call it that). -- Zzo38 ( talk) 04:14, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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)
Pronounciation ~ carrot? 86.128.51.192 20:07, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
What about its use on internet forums, where it can be used to indicate the post is a reply to a previous post, usually determined by the number of carets, e.g. "^^^I Agree,but..." means the poster agrees with what was posted three posts back, not counting the new post. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.83.36.205 ( talk • contribs)
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)
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)
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)
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) NOT! Superscripts are obsolete! Caret is used now! PiotrGrochowski000 ( talk) 07:07, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
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)
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)
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@ Spitzak: This article is about actual caret signs, not something else. Recognising wp:common name and all that, but U+005E is not a caret, it is a circumflex. It just got called a caret by monolingual programmers in the US, because US English never sees any words that have a circumflex diacritic. Rather than just revert your edit first, per WP:BRD, let's discuss first. What I propose is that the article have a hatnote that reads something like this:
Comments? -- John Maynard Friedman ( talk) 22:54, 17 June 2020 (UTC)