Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-35251142-20160429023805/@comment-26429063-20160504103722

Caret and circumflex is only the puncunation, not the entire algebra method itself. Expentional isn't suppose to be a smaller number (exponent) on top of the base. But since it is impossible to type in that just by a normal keyboard, people uses B^a, with B being the base, and a being the exponent. This also has been used in Microsoft Excels.