Exponentiation

Exponentiation is the process of taking a quantity  (the base) to the power of another quantity  (the exponent). This operation most commonly denoted . In TeX, the Wolfram Language, and many other computer languages, exponentiation is denoted with a caret, i.e., as b^e. However, in FORTRAN, it is denoted b**e (Calderbank 1989, p. 29).

REFERENCES:

Calderbank, V. J. Programming in FORTRAN, 3rd ed. London: Chapman and Hall, 1989.