Re: [OM] Gravitationals waves--yes they do exist and so do, Black holes

[Chuck Norcutt]

This is reaching back a long time but I think the keypunch probably only 
had a subset of the full EBCDIC character set.  But even the full EBCDIC 
character set doesn't have a caret.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC>
The carat is ASCII land.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII>

Chuck Norcutt


On 2/14/2016 7:42 PM, Lawrence Plummer wrote:
> 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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