What Does ^ In An Equation Such As Body Weight (kg)/height^2 (meters) Mean?
Height squared.
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4 Responses to “What Does ^ In An Equation Such As Body Weight (kg)/height^2 (meters) Mean?”
Deepee. on December 29th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
exponent
Nate S on December 30th, 2009 at 2:22 am
The number after the ^ is an exponent. So when you can’t use superscripts four squared would be expressed as 4^2.
linux276 on December 30th, 2009 at 8:31 am
^ means “to the power of”, which loosely means “multiple this number by itself this many times”. If it’s height^2, it’s height*height, or height squared. If it’s height^3, it’s height*height*height.
This is the same as just putting a 2 in superscript (tiny number in the upper right). On the internet, and in a lot of programming situations, “^2″ is the only way of writing it that works.
aestatis on December 30th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
It is the exponent symbol. ^ basically means “to the power of”. In your case, just square the number. (To the power of 2). On your calculator you may have a key that looks like ^. punch in the equation and then do ^ and then push 2 and then = . This should give you your answer!
***All calsulators are different so you may have a different version of that key but it is approximately like that!
-Hope this helps!-
exponent
The number after the ^ is an exponent. So when you can’t use superscripts four squared would be expressed as 4^2.
^ means “to the power of”, which loosely means “multiple this number by itself this many times”. If it’s height^2, it’s height*height, or height squared. If it’s height^3, it’s height*height*height.
This is the same as just putting a 2 in superscript (tiny number in the upper right). On the internet, and in a lot of programming situations, “^2″ is the only way of writing it that works.
It is the exponent symbol. ^ basically means “to the power of”. In your case, just square the number. (To the power of 2). On your calculator you may have a key that looks like ^. punch in the equation and then do ^ and then push 2 and then = . This should give you your answer!
***All calsulators are different so you may have a different version of that key but it is approximately like that!
-Hope this helps!-