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unstrict inequality signs (less-than or equals to sign and greater-than or equals to sign) 1670 (with the horizontal bar over the inequality sign, rather than below it) John Wallis: 1734 (with double horizontal bar below the inequality sign) Pierre Bouguer
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. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
In some fonts (for example Arial) they are only symmetrical in certain sizes. Alternatively the quotes can be rendered as ⌈ and ⌉ (U+2308 and U+2309) or by using a negation symbol and a reversed negation symbol ⌐ ¬ in superscript mode.)
female sign u+2642: ♂: male sign u+2660: ♠: black spade suit u+2661 ♡ white heart suit u+2662 ♢ white diamond suit u+2663: ♣: black club suit u+266d ♭ music flat sign u+266e ♮ music natural sign u+266f ♯ music sharp sign
Usage of this symbol dates back to the early computer interfaces developed at Xerox PARC in the 1980s. [18] It is also similar to the icon frequently used to indicate justified text alignment . It is an oft-used component of Google's Material Design guidelines and many Android apps and web apps that follow these guidelines make use of the ...
≠ (not-equal sign) Denotes inequality and means "not equal". ≈ The most common symbol for denoting approximate equality. For example, ~ 1. Between two numbers, either it is used instead of ≈ to mean "approximatively equal", or it means "has the same order of magnitude as".
The less-than sign is a mathematical symbol that denotes an inequality between two values. The widely adopted form of two equal-length strokes connecting in an acute angle at the left, <, has been found in documents dated as far back as the 1560s. In mathematical writing, the less-than sign is typically placed between two values being compared ...
Other rotated symbols include ɞ (rotated or reversed ʚ), ʖ (rotated ʕ) ⱹ (rotated ɽ), ɺ (rotated ɼ), the digits ↊ and ↋, the insular g: Ꝿ ꝿ, and the ampersand ⅋. The turned comma or inverted comma (‘) is, as its name suggests, a rotated comma. This symbol is most commonly encountered as an opening single quotation mark.