Missing character on keyboard

[Markus Hoenicka]

Around 2013-12-02 17:03, Neil Winchurst was heard to say:
> I was looking at the man page for dc, which is a RPN calculator. Most
> of it is fine, since I am used to using the forth language. However, I
> have noticed that the character which I need for calculating the
> square root of a number is missing from my English UK keyboard.
> 
> The character for finding the power of a number is ^ which on my
> keyboard is on the key for the number 6. On the man page the character
> for square root is like an upside down version of the ^ symbol. That
> is not on my keyboard. Research has not helped. And yes, I do know
> about and use the compose key, in my case AltGr.
> 
> If anyone can point me in the right direction I would be very grateful,
> 
> thanks
> 
> Neil

Hi,

I did a quick google search for "dc square root". I take from the 
results that your upside down ^ is the character "v". Does that work for 
you?

regards,
Markus

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