What's the ¬ key for?

Morlan · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:24

That key beside 1. Any ideas? Google returns nothing

Arcade Fire · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:26

I use it to negate statements in formal logic. To write '¬P' means 'the negation of the statement P'.

I have no idea apart from that though.

Morlan · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:28

Thanks.

How often do people need to negate statements in formal logic though ? :confused:

F355 · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:29

Dear old Wikipedia says:

Click

Insanity · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:30

You use it to make the " ¬_¬ " face.

Arcade Fire · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:34

Morlan said:
Thanks.

How often do people need to negate statements in formal logic though ?

Well... all the time, if you're me!

Zip · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:35

How about Scroll lock? What the hell does that do other then turn the little light on? :confused:

benneh · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:35

Console in cs/tfc baby.

Gilly · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:37

Zip said:
How about Scroll lock? What the hell does that do other then turn the little light on?

It used to make a big difference in programming (scrolling the screen rather than moving the cursor) and it helps in Excel too.

alexakasloth · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:40

Insanity said:
You use it to make the " ¬_¬ " face.

Damn, you beat me

Zip · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:41

Gilly said:
It used to make a big difference in programming (scrolling the screen rather than moving the cursor) and it helps in Excel too.

Thanks

Looks like ill never need to use it then

While im here what is this for apart from some web addresses? ~

Carzy · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:42

benneh said:
Console in cs/tfc baby.

Beaten

It works in a lot of other games aswell.

Arcade Fire · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:46

Zip said:
While im here what is this for apart from some web addresses? ~

You use it to mean 'ish'. Like in a recent email, I said that I wanted to tutor for ~3 hours a week - meaning 2 to 4, I guess.

Gilly · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:46

Zip said:
While im here what is this for apart from some web addresses? ~

Its a Tilde and is sometimes used to show a change in pronunciation.

As AF has said its also used to mean 'ish' or 'about' sometimes.

electric ant · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:49

What's this "^"

Apart from being used to make ^_^ faces
Or a cat =^_^=
or plain old ^^

^_^

Gilly · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:50

electric ant said:
What's this "^"

Apart from being used to make ^_^ faces
Or a cat =^_^=
or plain old ^^

^_^

Its called a caret and is used in proofreading when someone believes a word or comment should be added.

M0KUJ1N · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:53

its generally used to show raising a number to the power of another e.g

10^3 = 1000

3^2 = 9

2^4 =16 etc

Arcade Fire · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:53

Gilly said:
Its called a caret and is used in proofreading when someone believes a word or comment should be added.

I think there's a way to put it above a letter too (holding Alt, or something like that...) as some languages use it to change the pronunciation of a letter, and it's used in lots of maths and physics literature.

Zip · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:54

How about these other then being used in Clan Names [ ]? :confused:

Most people use {these} or (these) to put words inside but not [these] unless its a clan name

Gilly · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:54

Arcade Fire said:
I think there's a way to put it above a letter too (holding Alt, or something like that...) as some languages use it to change the pronunciation of a letter, and it's used in lots of maths and physics literature.

Aye

Can't remember the Unicode/Ascii codes. I used to know most of them by heart.

Zip said:
How about these other then being used in Clan Names [ ]?

These are also used in proofreading. a [ means move this bit right, a ] means move this bit left. They're also used when quoting someone to indicate that the author of the quote, not the quoted person, said what is contained within the square parenthesis