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Why was the caret used for exponentiation in BASIC?
The BASIC article on wikipedia provides a link to the first user manual created by the inventors of the language. At that time, October 1964, the power operator was an ↑ up arrow (page 9). It was ...
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Why was the caret used for exponentiation in BASIC?
I think the proper answer is the one you already preemptively rejected.
It is not a case of simply using existing mathematical notation (unlike + and -), since the ^ symbol is not really used in ...
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Why do some BASIC programmers put a redundant END statement at the end of the code?
Furthermore, in some BASIC interpreters that I have used ... ("HP2000 Access BASIC," anyone? Bah ... these kids today ...) ... the END statement was required at the end of the program, and nowhere ...
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How does Matplotlib / other GUIs work to draw the individual pixels?
I would say at this level of previous knowledge it suffices to say that ultimately, pixels are just memory locations that can be accessed using ordinary read and write operations in any language that ...
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How does Matplotlib / other GUIs work to draw the individual pixels?
Drawing is translated to fairly primitive commands at the lowest level. Such as
Draw Line/Ellipse/Polyline/spline
Fill ellipse/rectangle/polygon
Draw pixels from image X at position Y using blending ...
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