What Steph said. I understand numbers are symbols, because letters are words are arbitrary agreed-upon signifiers, too.
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Strix - Jan 15, 2005 2:26:16 pm PST #4602 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Polter-Cow - Jan 15, 2005 2:26:26 pm PST #4603 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
but what does the trad quotes>
What are you trying to ask here? It may not be coming out.
Isn't it more that *numbers* are constant -- 2 apples will always be 2 apples and not twice as many, not ever -- but that the *symbols* used to describe them are arbitrary? The 2, the 4, the i?
Yeah, that's what I think, but I think there are some people who believe even that part's not true.
Strix - Jan 15, 2005 2:27:20 pm PST #4604 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Basically. how do you do trad quotes? Not italics.
Polter-Cow - Jan 15, 2005 2:29:27 pm PST #4605 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Basically. how do you do trad quotes?
You mean like what I just did to your statement? You use the right caret, >, followed by your quoted material. I think that's what ita described. Or are "trad quotes" something I don't know?
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2005 2:29:45 pm PST #4606 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
So (doohickey i doohickey) does italics, but what does the trad quotes> I've never been able to figure that one out.
If I type this:
My cat is
i so
annoying...
It gets translated into:
My cat is <i>so</i> annoying...
and displays like:
My cat is so annoying...
Traditional quoting is more complicated. It means that this:
>2 apples will always be 2 apples
translates to the following HTML:
<blockquote><tt>2 apples will always be 2 apples</tt></blockquote>
and displays like:
2 apples will always be 2 apples
Stephanie - Jan 15, 2005 2:29:48 pm PST #4607 of 10002
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You put the > before what you want quoted.
GUaranteed to be a x-post.
Strix - Jan 15, 2005 2:30:10 pm PST #4608 of 10002
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Polter-Cow - Jan 15, 2005 2:31:33 pm PST #4609 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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Hil R. - Jan 15, 2005 2:31:46 pm PST #4610 of 10002
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Isn't it more that *numbers* are constant -- 2 apples will always be 2 apples and not twice as many, not ever -- but that the *symbols* used to describe them are arbitrary? The 2, the 4, the i?
Well, define 2. Not the symbol, but the concept it's signifying. There's nothing physical you can point to and say, "That's a 2." You can do math as just a symbolic way of describing the physical world -- 2 is the concept of one object plus another of the same object -- but that gets pretty limited pretty quickly. There gets to be a point where you're using the numbers to represent pure concepts that can't be represented physically.
§ ita § - Jan 15, 2005 2:32:00 pm PST #4611 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's all here, in the link above the posting box.