Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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It appears that > and < were "invented" by Thomas Harriot. I have yet to discover how he came up with them. About a century after the introduction of =, for what that's worth. Before that they used something much harder to decipher. Or words. Usually in Latin, because that's what scholars wrote in.
= was used to mean "equals" because it's two equal, parallel line segments and "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle", according to Robert Recorde.
people with many more academic degrees than I have are the people who made the decision
But they are nowhere near as Tep-alicious as you are. So you should prevail.
Is that for real?
We're just gonna show up, whether it's real or not.
Actually, it sounds tentative, but it sounds like some sort of F2F will happen at Gus's.
In formal logic, you use a V for "or" (latin Vel), an upside-down V for "and" (drunk Latin or possibly Australian logician).
I'm betting that really soon the logicians give up and use the symbols the computer scientists mostly use, | (or) and & (and). The typewriter triumphs again!
In at least one of my classes, we used . for either and or or. Don't remember.
But I hope that they don't switch to | & &, just because | is damned hard to read quickly and accurately.
I just hope they keep the "such that" and "for all" and "there exists" symbols, because I lurve them. I wish they were on keyboards so I could throw them into every single thing I write.
(edited because, while exits exist, I don't know the symbol for them being there, other than EXIT)
people with many more academic degrees than I have are the people who made the decision
But they are nowhere near as Tep-alicious as you are. So you should prevail.
I think so, too! However, they don't accept that reasoning as "logical." WhatEV. Like "logic" has anything to do with it....
God, yes, -t. I find myself reaching typographically for that flipped "E" all the time.
Rats, I was hoping you'd throw some handy html that would bring them to life at me, ita.
I do love the backward E. There is at least one ita such that: