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The ^ that points up, proofreads your typos, and never gets credit.
means A small wedge-shaped mark (^) used to show where something should be inserted into text, and, in computing, the blinking vertical bar marking where your next keystroke will land.
from From Latin caret, meaning 'it is lacking' — literally the third-person form of carere, 'to be without.' Proofreaders writing in Latin would jot caret in the margin to flag a missing word, and the little insertion mark ^ inherited the name. So the symbol is, etymologically, a tiny confession of absence — a mark that exists to say something is missing.
- keyboard home
- shift plus 6 on most layouts
- not a carrot
- zero vitamin a, all syntax
- math duty
- means exponent in plain text, like 2^3
- editing mark
- originally used to show missing text in proofs