- mookey
- Pilgrim
- From: Virginia, USA
- Registered: 2001-06-06
- Posts: 1190
Re: Dude!
oh.
what the heck is ¬ ???
"...that which comes into the world and disturbs nothing deserves neither patience nor respect"
-Jean Cocteau
- Marian
- Pilgrim
- From: Richmond, VA
- Registered: 2001-06-05
- Posts: 17444
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Re: Dude!
Exactly what I was going to ask. I can't imagine what use a sideways L could have!
Other than playing Tetris, of course.
- Sarah
- Pilgrim
- From: Nottingham, England
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 4510
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Re: Dude!
¬ denotes negation in predicate logic
p = True
¬p = False
I don't know if it is used for anything else though.
- Matt
- Pilgrim
- From: Bay Area, CA
- Registered: 2001-05-23
- Posts: 912
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Dang it SarahWarah, I wanted to answer that one. It's actually used in formal logic generally. Some people use the tilde (~) instead.
"The world up and went sane and I was left to stand alone."
-- Latigo Flint
- mookey
- Pilgrim
- From: Virginia, USA
- Registered: 2001-06-06
- Posts: 1190
Re: Dude!
oh, well, I'm completly illogical, so I won't ever be allowed to use that.
"...that which comes into the world and disturbs nothing deserves neither patience nor respect"
-Jean Cocteau
- Marian
- Pilgrim
- From: Richmond, VA
- Registered: 2001-06-05
- Posts: 17444
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Re: Dude!
Me neither. In fact, I'm going to show my solidarity in Mookey's illogical world by joining her in the realm of random umlauts!
- Sarah
- Pilgrim
- From: Nottingham, England
- Registered: 2001-06-01
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Re: Dude!
Sorry Matt! Didn't mean to steal your limelight ;) Maybe you can show me up by finding out what the backwards apostrophe (`) is really called :)
- jaded
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2001-08-19
- Posts: 10900
Re: Dude!
okay, well now i just have to know why you brits have different keyboards from us? what's the deal? and what is ¬ called, anyway?
- Matt
- Pilgrim
- From: Bay Area, CA
- Registered: 2001-05-23
- Posts: 912
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Re: Dude!
SarahWarah wrote:Sorry Matt! Didn't mean to steal your limelight ;) Maybe you can show me up by finding out what the backwards apostrophe (`) is really called :)
Oh, that's okay. I'll just wait until somebody asks about disjunctive properties. But tell me, who are you who is so wise in the ways of predicate logic? (Most people don't even know what predicate logic is.)
"The world up and went sane and I was left to stand alone."
-- Latigo Flint
- Matt
- Pilgrim
- From: Bay Area, CA
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Re: Dude!
jaded wrote:and what is ¬ called, anyway?
'Not Sign' or 'Negation Operator'. (Nothing fancy -- that I know of anyway -- like umlaut or diaeresis.)
"The world up and went sane and I was left to stand alone."
-- Latigo Flint
- Sarah
- Pilgrim
- From: Nottingham, England
- Registered: 2001-06-01
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Re: Dude!
As to why we have different keyboards, I really don't know. They only differ where non-alphabetical characters are concerned.
Matt - By day I am Sarah, by night I am...
<dramatic music>
LOGIC GIRL!!!
Seriously though, I only know the basics really. I'm studying Internet Computing and it was part of a foundations module in the 1st year.
- mookey
- Pilgrim
- From: Virginia, USA
- Registered: 2001-06-06
- Posts: 1190
Re: Dude!
is this ` perhaps called an acent ague?
"...that which comes into the world and disturbs nothing deserves neither patience nor respect"
-Jean Cocteau
- Matt
- Pilgrim
- From: Bay Area, CA
- Registered: 2001-05-23
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Re: Dude!
Möökey wrote:is this ` perhaps called an acent ague?
I think it's the grave accent. The acute accent points the other way, like so ´.
[ November 01, 2001: Message edited by: Matt ]
"The world up and went sane and I was left to stand alone."
-- Latigo Flint
- Sarah
- Pilgrim
- From: Nottingham, England
- Registered: 2001-06-01
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Re: Dude!
Except that it doesn't go over another character, it is one in its own right. Or am I just making this up now?
- mookey
- Pilgrim
- From: Virginia, USA
- Registered: 2001-06-06
- Posts: 1190
Re: Dude!
True. Well, someone at work told me it is a single quote. That it is the "true single quote" as opposed to the apostrophe button we normally use. But I'm not sure that sounds right to me.
"...that which comes into the world and disturbs nothing deserves neither patience nor respect"
-Jean Cocteau
- Sarah
- Pilgrim
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Re: Dude!
No, that doesn't sound right to me either.
- mookey
- Pilgrim
- From: Virginia, USA
- Registered: 2001-06-06
- Posts: 1190
Re: Dude!
well, according to webmonkey Matt is right. Its a grave accent.
"...that which comes into the world and disturbs nothing deserves neither patience nor respect"
-Jean Cocteau
- Marian
- Pilgrim
- From: Richmond, VA
- Registered: 2001-06-05
- Posts: 17444
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Re: Dude!
I just have to say that "true single quote" made me chuckle, as if there are other single quotes just masquerading as a quote.
"I'm not really a single quote, I just play one on TV!"
"Excuse me, sir, we're going to have to take you in for questioning. It seems you've been impersonating a single quote."
- mookey
- Pilgrim
- From: Virginia, USA
- Registered: 2001-06-06
- Posts: 1190
Re: Dude!
Well, I guess it is kind of dumb looking back on it, but he's a really smart guy and usually knows what he's talking about.
I agree it didn't make much sense though
"...that which comes into the world and disturbs nothing deserves neither patience nor respect"
-Jean Cocteau
- Marian
- Pilgrim
- From: Richmond, VA
- Registered: 2001-06-05
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Re: Dude!
I could tell it was one of those thoughts that was hard to paraphrase... Happens to me all the time; someone says something that makes sense, and I try to tell someone else and they look at me like I'm nuts. Like the thing about water exploding if you microwave it.
See?
Anyway, I appreciated the laugh. Just funny images. :)
- FlutePicc
- Pilgrim
- From: Canada
- Registered: 2001-06-08
- Posts: 16570
Re: Dude!
Wow... All these cool symbols I don't know how to produce...
- Marian
- Pilgrim
- From: Richmond, VA
- Registered: 2001-06-05
- Posts: 17444
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Re: Dude!
If all else fails, copy and paste! :)
- jaded
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2001-08-19
- Posts: 10900
- rimses
- Pilgrim
- From: Uqbar
- Registered: 2001-06-19
- Posts: 5286
Re: Dude!
the ümläuts have to be very ecxiting for your english speaking people....
- Captain Roberto Fruitbat
- Pilgrim
- From: Berlin
- Registered: 2001-06-08
- Posts: 1314
Re: Dude!
They must be.
Have you ever seen Billy Wilder´s "One, Two, Three"? Lilo Pulver is giving James Cagney "Umlautstunden".
And when you meet a native english speaker, get them to say Eichhörnchen. Hours of fun!
insects are not always
going to be bullied
by humanity
some day they will revolt
i am already organizing
a revolutionary society to be
known as the worms turnverein
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