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From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:44:14 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160711064414.GC27049@server.rulingia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160709155951.GB1076@mercury.ccil.org>

On 2016-Jul-09 11:59:51 -0400, John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
>| was commonplace, however, as it has at least 15 mathematical uses:
>see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar#Mathematics>.
>As far as I know, it has always been used as 'or' on computers.

APL uses it for absolute value and modulo.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-11  6:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-09 13:22 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-09 15:59 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11  6:44   ` Peter Jeremy [this message]
2016-07-10 14:11 ` Nemo
2016-07-10 20:23 ` pete
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-07-10  0:52 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-10  1:51 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 12:09   ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 12:34     ` John Cowan
2016-07-14 14:48       ` Christian Neukirchen
2016-07-08 14:52 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Clem Cole
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-09 17:03   ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21     ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-10 14:38       ` [TUHS] Slashes Christian Neukirchen
2016-07-08 11:25 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Norman Wilson
2016-07-10 18:26 ` [TUHS] Slashes Adam Sampson

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