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Re:Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source by bill3478 on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @10:26AM (#38013171)
Is that the power operator or the xor operator?
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Re:Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source by vhodges on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @10:38AM (#38013279)
power: https://www.google.com/search?q=2%5E18
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Re:Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source by bill3478 on Thursday October 26, 2023 @08:57AM (#38024903)
Of the top 10 languages on https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/, only Visual Basic uses ^ as the power operator. Google must really like Visual Basic.
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Re:Tarsnap has given 2^18 dollars to open source by vhodges on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:10PM (#38029498)
Huh... I've always thought of it as power. It probably comes from my ancient past ;).. Note bc -l it's power of.
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