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I read that the ^ operator is the logical XOR operator in C#, but I also thought it was the "power of" operator. What is the explanation?
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XOR is a bitwise operator, and it stands for "exclusive or." It performs logical operation. If input bits are the same, then the output will be false(0) else true(1).
The ^ (bitwise XOR) in C or C++ takes two numbers as operands and does XOR on every bit of two numbers. The result of XOR is 1 if the two bits are different. The << (left shift) in C or C++ takes two numbers, left shifts the bits of the first operand, the second operand decides the number of places to shift.
The bitwise exclusive OR operator ( ^ ) compares each bit of its first operand to the corresponding bit of its second operand. If the bit in one of the operands is 0 and the bit in the other operand is 1, the corresponding result bit is set to 1. Otherwise, the corresponding result bit is set to 0.
It is not the power of operator of C# since there is no such operator in C#. It is just the XOR operator.
For "power of", use Math.Pow.
As you can see from this page on the C# Operators, ^ is listed under the "Logical (boolean and bitwise)" category, which means it can both handle boolean values, and binary values (for bitwise XOR).
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