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A backslash-like symbol is used for the set difference. [24] The backslash is also sometimes used to denote the right coset space. [25] Especially when describing computer algorithms, it is common to define backslash so that a\b is equivalent to ⌊ a/b ⌋. [26] This is integer division that rounds down, not towards zero.
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases.
Select, copy, and paste the character using the GNOME Character Map. If not already installed along with GNOME, it is usually available as "gucharmap" (which can be installed with "yum install gucharmap" as root on a Redhat-like Linux distribution, for example). In KDE, a similar application is named "KCharSelect".
2 Control-D has been used to signal "end of file" for text typed in at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, DOS, and older minicomputers used Control-Z for this purpose. 3 Control-G is an artifact of the days when teletypes were in use. Important messages could be signalled by striking the bell on the teletype.
There was no code-point for any ¥ symbol in the original (7-bit) US-ASCII and consequently many early systems reassigned 5C (allocated to the backslash (\) in ASCII) to the yen sign. With the arrival of 8-bit encoding, the ISO/IEC 8859-1 ("ISO Latin 1") character set assigned code point A5 to the ¥ in 1985; Unicode continues this encoding.
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The text-only form of the LaTeX can be set via user ... For copy-paste support in ... They start with a backslash \ and then have a name consisting of letters only ...