@mwichary @enf The ancient Greeks used it to separate letters, and the Romans mimicked them briefly (http://www.jstor.org/stable/4172085 ).
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@shadychars@mwichary@enf Old Hungarian did this too, I think. Looks like tricolon http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/205d/index.htm … but I'm at a loss as to purpose.
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@mwichary@enf Also, Unicode contains a similar character called the vertical ellipsis (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/22ee/index.htm …). -
@shadychars@mwichary@enf was going to suggest this one as I use that character on a regular basis. - Show replies
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@mwichary@shadychars@enf ⋮vertical ellipsis as to not confuse | with an I? -
@ThisWarIsBoring@mwichary@shadychars@enf 1960s ASCII created broken bar ¦ to avoid confusion with logical "or". http://www.trafficways.org/ascii/ascii.pdf - Show replies
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@mwichary@shadychars@enf have you never seen advanced mathematics? It's used between equations when the intermediate steps are elementary. -
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@buro9@mwichary@ninastoessinger@enf But there's also a standard colon. No zero either; capital O stood in for it,Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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