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
You put the > before what you want quoted.
GUaranteed to be a x-post.
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.
It's all here, in the link above the posting box.
Thanks, ita. Somehow I missed that quick edit.
Since I am going to do my first webpage, this is all extremely useful info. Thanks.
There's nothing physical you can point to and say, "That's a 2."
Can't you do that with sufficient repetitions of two objects? Sufficient to distance it from the object itself, and instead focus on the quantity? It's not even that 2 is the concept of one object plus another of the same object, unless you spend a fair amount of time defining "same" and "object" which seem to be much harder than 2.
Yesterday morning before work it was -15 F here, with -30 F windchill. It had gotten down to -18 F overnight, apparently.
Today it rose to a balmy 4 above.
I went for a walk.
I also noticed fresh bicycle tire tracks in the snow.
WTF?
