Missing character on keyboard

[Robert Holtzman]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 04:03:59PM +0000, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> 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,

Just looked at the man page and the square root symbol looks to me more
like a "v" rather than an inverted caret. I didn't have time to try it. 
What do you think?

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