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<Then what are these??> Apart from greater-than and smaller-than thingies.
or is there some joke I'm likely not getting?
The pipe thingy, I think.
(don't think that made any sense )

EDIT: Ahh, Faldage got there before me!

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Try this one. http://168.16.169.58/magritte.htm It's not as good a representation but it shows another example that I hadn't known about. *It isn't an apple.


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Didn't you all have some discussion years back...

I think one set of definitions was round brackets() vs square brackets [] vs curly brackets{}, also known sometimes as (parentheses) [brackets] and {braces}.

To add to these I now offer by extension: <pointy brackets>.


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This word is not a word.


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#93353 01/26/03 01:41 AM
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Duh!

It was a picture of a pipe

Being Ron Obvious


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which word, Juan?

My word, Dub-Dub, surely you can see how the former is more the Zen koan here....reflect without thought.

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