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ordering AB
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Code-flavored caret operator — '{X} ^ {Y}'
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response (200 chars)
In **C** and **Lua**, the `^` operator means completely different things — a common gotcha:
## C: Bitwise XOR
```c
int a = 5 ^ 3; // 0101 XOR 0011 = 0110 → 6
```
For exponentiation in C, use `pow()
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