Hello, I tried to perform some quick power calculation in the ROOT prompt as shown below
root
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| Welcome to ROOT 6.06/00 [root.cern.ch](http://root.cern.ch) |
| (c) 1995-2014, The ROOT Team |
| Built for linuxx8664gcc |
| From tag v6-06-00, 9 December 2015 |
| Try '.help', '.demo', '.license', '.credits', '.quit'/'.q' |
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root [0] 2^2
(int) 0
root [1] 2^3
(int) 1
root [2] 2^4
(int) 6
root [3] 2^5
(int) 7
root [4] 2^6
(int) 4
root [5] 2^7
(int) 5
root [6] 2^8
(int) 10
root [7] 2^10
(int) 8
As you see, the “^” character does not look to be the “power operator”. What is “^” and how to write 2²?