C doesn't have an exponentiation operator, and instead uses `^` to mean XOR. Other languages have copied that meaning of `^` and hence need to use something dif

C doesn't have an exponentiation operator, and instead uses `^` to mean XOR. Other languages have copied that meaning of `^` and hence need to use something different for exponentiation. However, Lua is one language that does use `^` for exponentiation (its XOR operator is `~`).