What is the button next to '1' called?

SideWinder · 16 Feb 2007 at 16:59

The button that does this:

`¦¬

Any ideas what it's called?

monkeyspank · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:02

` is called a tilde i think. god knows

Gilly · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:02

monkeyspank said:
` is called a tilde i think. god knows

Nope, thats ~

Rich_L · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:03

Wikipedia thinks it's a backtick ` with a logical NOT ¬ when shifted, and a broken vertical bar ¦

I call it "that key to the left of 1"

shine · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:04

` is called a back tick.

Felix Da Housecat · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:04

What is the button next to '1' called?

Zero?

KizZ · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:04

I call it console key.

TheCrow · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:05

its the consol button! :confused:

monkeyspank · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:15

Gilly said:
Nope, thats ~

ID software always referred to it as that. Gotta love video games as educational material

whitecrook · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:21

monkeyspank said:
` is called a tilde i think. god knows

No, you are confused, as the tilde ( ~ ) on an american keyboard is in the location (to the left of '1') as the aforementioned 'back tick'. However on a Britsih Keyboard it's usually near return key.

This confused me no end when I was a n00b playing Quake for the first time reading the american docs.

Neoni · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:23

Console button... Shift and ¬

paradigm · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:24

monkeyspank said:
ID software always referred to it as that. Gotta love video games as educational material

Thats because ID Software are in the US, and in the US, ~ is the button next to 1

Lysander · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:24

The tilde is used as a logical not, so no idea what ¬ is. I can't imagine it being another symbol for logical not since that's a pretty exclusive and specific symbol, why would a standard keyboard need it??

Scuzi · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:26

Every time you push that button, another Muslim immigrant signs onto the dole.

whitecrook · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:28

Lysander said:
The tilde is used as a logical not, so no idea what ¬ is. I can't imagine it being another symbol for logical not since that's a pretty exclusive and specific symbol, why would a standard keyboard need it??

Please look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negation

Scarecrow · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:28

Its called the one next to 1 and not 2

Hate · 16 Feb 2007 at 17:56

the mac keyboard has the equally pointless ± and §

joeyjojo · 16 Feb 2007 at 18:09

Hate said:
§

Simoleon?

Edit: scuzi you're strange :confused:

Scuzi · 16 Feb 2007 at 18:14

joeyjojo said:
Edit: scuzi you're strange

I have to be. If I wasn't I'd go crazy.

thelonecrouton · 16 Feb 2007 at 18:23

I always thought the tilde meant approximately, as in eg. ~£100, about a hundred quid.

What is the button next to '1' called?

Capodecina