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Caret

This article is about the computing character. For the proofreader's insertion symbol, see Caret (proofreading). For other uses, see Caret (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Carrot or Carat.
"^" and "U+005E" redirect here. For the diacritic, see circumflex. For math notation, see Exponentiation and Logical conjunction. For similar characters sometimes called "caret"[1][2], see ∧, λ, 人, and ʌ.

^
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
Look up caret in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Caret (from Latin caret 'there is lacking')[3] is the name used familiarly for the character ^ 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 ASCII standard (X3.64.1977) calls it a "circumflex";[4] the Unicode standard calls it a "circumflex accent", although it is no longer practicable for that purpose.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Unicode IPA Extensions was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  3. ^ "Etymology of 'caret'". Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper. Retrieved 22 October 2024.
  4. ^ "American National Standard for Information Interchange" (PDF). National Institute for Standards. 1977. (facsimile, not machine readable)

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