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Ran across this deleting old email:
This week's theme: words that have many unrelated meanings.
fizgig (FIZ-gig) noun
1. A squib:...firework.....
2. A kind of top.....
3. A flirty, frivolous girl....
4. A kind of harpoon....
5. A police informer....
I didn't know how to place a tilde above the = sign
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>I didn't know how to place a tilde above the = sign
it's perfectly valid (and understandable) to approximate
this as =~ (defined as 'equals approximately)
-joe (define your terms) friday
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Unicode character 0x2245: ≅ ... Under Windows, the Start > Programs > Accessories > Character Map application is your friend.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Lessee how this works
̃=̃
Looks a little off center to me but.
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hmm, can't seem to find that on the mac, other than as an html character, which doesn't display:
≅
what's it called, btw?
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The Unicode character is called Approximately Equal To. The XML entity, ≅, probably stands for congruence. [Added the URL to the link.]
Last edited by zmjezhd; 01/12/2008 5:31 PM.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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> congruence
ah, that makes sense, thanks.
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tsu: Thank you, I was glad to hear that as I resent all the keystroking one has to go thru (as zm suggests) to find an obscure symbol
zm: Thank you for that link but it only gives me
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
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