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authorKragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@pobox.com>2009-01-05 00:05:23 -0300
committerKragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@pobox.com>2009-01-05 00:05:23 -0300
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added a note on the origin of the backslash character
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<Multi_key> <colon> <equal> : "≔" U2254 # COLON EQUALS
<Multi_key> <equal> <question> : "≟" U225f # QUESTIONED EQUAL TO
<Multi_key> <s> <q> : "√" U221A # SQUARE ROOT
+ # “(Note: I had put the backslash in position 5/15. It enabled the
+ # ALGOL “and” to be “/\” and the “or” to be “\/”.)” --- Bob Bemer,
+ # http://home.ccil.org/~remlaps/www.bobbemer.com/BRACES.HTM, quoting
+ # himself in “A view of the history of the ISO character code”, 1972
<Multi_key> <slash> <backslash> : "∧" U2227 # LOGICAL AND
<Multi_key> <backslash> <slash> : "∨" U2228 # LOGICAL OR
<Multi_key> <backslash> <underscore> <slash> : "⊻" U22BB # XOR