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in thread OSCON Perl Unicode Slides

I'm not aware of any use of -:-.

Even though it's not "citeable", the easy way out is to look at the German page of Wikipedia on "Division", which shows the ":" notation. It also shows the -:- notation as an alternative and attributes both to Leibnitz.

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Re^9: OSCON Perl Unicode Slides
by Boldra (Curate) on Jul 26, 2011 at 07:01 UTC
    Don't tell him how multiplication is written, he'll blow a gasket!

    It's still my biggest problem when I try to help my kids with their maths homework.

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Re^9: OSCON Perl Unicode Slides
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 25, 2011 at 21:21 UTC

    Okay, I accept that on the basis that my knowledge (of German/y) is limited to the business/IT/a few months.

    That said. I find much of the nomenclature used on the "english" Wikipedia pages to be utterly foreign to me. And I've been reading English theses and dissertations on a daily basis for over 30 years.

    The trouble is, there is a school of english that thinks -- and I think, truly believes -- that complicated, sophisticated, intellectualated confers stat-us. (Contendo:sta-tus), It doesn't. Only pointless confusion and off-hand dismissal as: 'lack of understanding'; 'unsophistication'.

    Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
    "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
    In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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      there is a school of english that thinks ... believes -- that complicated, sophisticated, intellectualated confers stat-us.

      You are mistaken. If that were really the reason some of us argue that proper English requires more characters than are in ASCII, I think you'd be right to fight it. But it's not.

      Maybe all those years of reading hyper-abstruse papers has addled your brain in some peculiar way.

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        I disagree with your assessment of proper english, therefore I must be suffering some mental dysfunction. Now that's proper.

        Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
        "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
        In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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