Moose, since the 60's (at least), the Fortran arithmetic operator has been **.
I'm trying to remember if the keypunch even had a caret!
larry
On 2/14/ 2016 13:03 AM, Moose wrote:
I know absolutely nothing about all this. It does strike, me, as a matter of
simple physics, that interference patterns may reveal things smaller than the
wavelengths of the interfering waves - I think. :-)
Why are you folks using the double asterisk, 10**-20, instead of the caret,
10^-20 as power notation? The caret is what spreadsheets use, and thus what
I've used for the several decades. I can't recall the notation for the
mainframe calculating programs I used before that. Before that, it was slide
rules ... Speculative and Curious Moose
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