why the exclusive or ?

[bangclash]

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this. I'm on lesson 2. I'm porting the lessons to C# to try to understand the theory better. The following line of code confuses me. I understand it's using an exclusive or but why is it doing this? What is the logic behind this so I can port this to C#. Thank you.

Vec3f n = (world_coords[2]-world_coords[0])^(world_coords[1]-world_coords[0]);

[ssloy]

This is an overloaded operator for cross product. In later commits it is superseded by cross(Vec3f v1, Vec3f v2) function.
The wedge notation is standard in french school, I thought it was common enough. But it confuses peope, so it was removed.