[Solved] What does x ^ 2 mean? in python

Question

It doesn’t ‘mean’ anything, not to Python; it is just another character in a string literal:

"Enter the value for the co-efficient of x^2. "

You could have written something else:

"Enter the value for the co-efficient of x to the power 2. "

and nothing but the output shown when asking for input() would have changed.

^ is a common notation for exponents. In Python, ** is used for exponents, and that is what the rest of the code uses.

Accepted Answer

It doesn’t ‘mean’ anything, not to Python; it is just another character in a string literal:

"Enter the value for the co-efficient of x^2. "

You could have written something else:

"Enter the value for the co-efficient of x to the power 2. "

and nothing but the output shown when asking for input() would have changed.

^ is a common notation for exponents. In Python, ** is used for exponents, and that is what the rest of the code uses.