Caret

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Caret
In UnicodeU+005E ^ CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT (^)
Different from
Different fromU+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
Related
See alsoU+FF3E FULLWIDTH CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT

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]

  1. ^ "American National Standard for Information Interchange" (PDF). National Institute for Standards. 1977. (facsimile, not machine readable)

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