You got lots of good answers but if you need another:
The one-word name for the ^ operator is "exponentiation"
just as + is addition, × is multiplication.....
For confirmation of this lovely geek work, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation
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I am having trouble finding out the purpose of the symbol ^ when using
calculations in Excel. Can anyone help me?