What's the ¬ key for?

Doonhamer · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:55

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

Does it also help you see in the dark?

Gilly · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:57

Doonhamer said:
Does it also help you see in the dark?

I'm afraid not. It doesn't measure precious stones or metals either.

alexakasloth · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:57

electric ant said:
What's this "^"

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

^_^

Budgie aswell:

<^-^>
..." "....

electric ant · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:57

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

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

Again I think square brackets are used in maths /physics equations where more than one set of brackets are used to distinguish between different parts of the equation.

I now want to knwo where the straight line is used "|"
Press shift+backslash to reproduce this symbol |||||||

Ex-RoNiN · 1 Oct 2006 at 16:58

Morlan said:
That key beside 1. Any ideas? Google returns nothing

In Operation Flashpoint, you use it to select your entire squad

Gilly · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:01

electric ant said:
I now want to knwo where the straight line is used "|"
Press shift+backslash to reproduce this symbol |||||||

Its called pipe and is seen in computing quite a bit. I've seen it in Perl as well as SQL. It also allows you to 'pipe' the results of a command in a command window to a text file.

BillytheImpaler · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:01

It's there to show newbies what to look for when searching for SATA ports on his shiny new motherboard.

My keyboard doesn't have that key. I have to resort to old fashioned Unicode.

M0KUJ1N · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:02

They are also commonly used to specify array elements in computer programming i.e. int myArray[10][10]; They may also be used to specify a vector in maths writing, though my memory on that sort of thing is pretty rusty

Slogan · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:03

To change your name in Call of Duty.

alexakasloth · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:03

Ex-RoNiN said:
In Operation Flashpoint, you use it to select your entire squad

In CS it's the console key, to make the grav go to 1 when someone jumps off a box.

Arcade Fire · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:05

M0KUJ1N said:
They are also commonly used to specify array elements in computer programming i.e. int myArray[10][10]; They may also be used to specify a vector in maths writing, though my memory on that sort of thing is pretty rusty

I can't imagine why anyone would want to use the { } brackets, unless they were using LaTeX to type something.

I've used the | key when typing up maths before - in quantum mechanics you often see the notation <q|p> to mean 'the probability amplitude for going from state p to state q'.

Gilly · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:07

Arcade Fire said:
I can't imagine why anyone would want to use the { } brackets, unless they were using LaTeX to type something.

They're used a lot in email addresses in large corporations. If you have a lot of, say, Mark Smiths in your company, putting {HR} after their Global Address Name lets people know at a glance which one they need.

They're used a bit in poetry and plays too.

M0KUJ1N · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:08

{ } brackets are also used to encapsulate loops in a lot of programming languages such as C and Java

Arcade Fire · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:09

I did a module on programming in C, and I totally didn't remember that. Uni teaches you important life knowledge, kids!

PS does someone want to make me a sig? This one's pretty crap but I can't be bothered to make a new one.

Ex-RoNiN · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:37

electric ant said:
Again I think square brackets are used in maths /physics equations where more than one set of brackets are used to distinguish between different parts of the equation.

I now want to knwo where the straight line is used "|"
Press shift+backslash to reproduce this symbol |||||||

Two of them are a logical "or" in C.

Gilly · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:37

Arcade Fire said:
PS does someone want to make me a sig? This one's pretty crap but I can't be bothered to make a new one.

Random place to ask

Post in the HTML and Graphics forum. There's a boatload of geeks crying out for material

Lagmeister · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:49

Ex-RoNiN said:
Two of them are a logical "or" in C.

and possibly most other languages too? unless your counting those wierd languages that only lecturers use so they dont get some geek at the back saying 'oh sir, you left a comma out'

Pretty much any random key is used in computing from when men where pixels and giant polygons roamed the lands feasting on their little pixel children.

Van Hellseek · 1 Oct 2006 at 17:53

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

winner!

Massive Attack · 1 Oct 2006 at 18:29

noob question but how do i open the consiole window in CSS i know u have to press ¬ but in what screen

electric ant · 1 Oct 2006 at 18:30

Massive Attack said:
noob question but how do i open the consiole window in CSS i know u have to press ¬ but in what screen

You'll need to enable Developers console. Go To options -> Advanced options and tick the box. Now it should work.

What's the ¬ key for?

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