Caret Symbol

The caret symbol is used in math to represent the exponentiation operator when entered on a keyboard.

Symbol Format Data
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TeX 
\text{\textasciicircum}
SVG

Usage

Exponent Computing
Exponent Computing | Notation

When computing an expression which contains the exponent operator, the caret symbol is often used in place of what normally would be superscript text.