Caret
Typographical mark (^) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the computing concept. For the proofreader's insertion symbol, see Caret (proofreading). For other uses, see Caret (disambiguation).
"^" redirects here. For mathematical function, see Exponentiation. For the diacritic, see circumflex. For similar characters, see ∧, λ, 人, and ʌ.
Caret is the name used familiarly for the character ^ (the circumflex and a circumflex accent) provided on most QWERTY keyboards by typing ⇧ Shift+6. The symbol has a variety of uses in programming and mathematics. The name "caret" arose from its visual similarity to the original proofreader's caret, a mark used in proofreading to indicate where a punctuation mark, word, or phrase should be inserted into a document. The formal ASCII standard (X3.64.1977) calls it a "circumflex".[1]
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Caret | |
In Unicode | U+005E ^ CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT (^) |
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Different from | U+2038 ‸ CARET U+02C6 ˆ MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT U+028C ʌ LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED V U+2227 ∧ LOGICAL AND U+039B Λ GREEK CAPITAL LETTER LAMDA |
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See also | U+FF3E ^ FULLWIDTH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT |
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