Typically you would use a carrot for eating. However, in certain situations, carrots can be particularly useful as weapons. Take a bite, whack someone, and then pull out your butter sock to finish them off.
If you are referring to the carrot symbol, ^, on a calculator you simply put a number after the carrot and make sure to be aware of your parentheses otherwise it could mess up your calculations.
For example
2^2 would be 22 which is four
However,
Take these two expressions as examples
2^(2) + 2 and 2 ^ 2 + 2
As you can see there a huge importance over where you put the parentheses and don't put them.