how to make "to the xth power" on a keyboard?

Question

how to make "to the xth power" on a keyboard?

I mean w/o the ^ sign. It's called calculator talk here and isn't allowed.

Answer 1

type ^x

^ is called a "caret" and it is typically above the 6 on your keyboard. It is generally understood that ^ indicates exponent or power.

Answer 2

If you're in Microsoft Word or something like that, you can type it, and then highlight what you want as the exponent. Then, with that highlighted, hit control-shift-+. That will raise it up to the superscript position. Hitting just control-= will lower it to a subscript position.

You can also highlight the character and then go to format-font, and superscript is one of the options you have.

But on some place like this, I think the ^ is the best way to indicate a superscript.

Answer 3

Well, I don't know but you can always do this:
Let's say "x"=5. Now you want to know 4 to the xth (5th) power. Easy as cake!

4(4)4(4)4
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Oh yeah! by the way, if you don't know how to put that carrot thing on the keyboard how did you type it in?
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I'm not a computer genius so my last coment was probably really dumb. Sorry if I was no help at all!

Answer 4

^x

The carrot (^) indicates that it is superscript...

so, 5^x is 5 to the xth power.

Answer 5

If you can't use ^, you could use ** instead, which used for exponentiation in some programming languages. It's probably not as widely recognized as the caret, though.