Missing character on keyboard

Neil Winchurst neilwin at drofle.co.uk
Mon Dec 2 18:28:34 CET 2013


On 02/12/13 17:03, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> 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
>
Well, yes, that is what I am looking for. But I cannot find that 
character. Can you tell where you found it please?

Neil


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