In the medieval period the asterisk continued to be employed in the copying of Bibles to flag up text from other sources. It also was increasingly used as asigne de renvoi(sign of return)—a graphic symbol which indicates where a correction or insertion should be made, with a corresponding ...
no other symbol has sparked as much debate. A handful of years ago it was even the subject ofa very funny parody song by The Lonely Island and Solangethat poked fun at hashtag rap. (Though, in fairness to the semicolon, the song’s punchline is that it was using...
aYou need to hit them quickly with the HAMMER in the symbol order that they are in on the pillar (A). The order may be random; I hit the gongs in this order; 4, 2, 1, 3. 您需要用锤子迅速击中他们按标志顺序他们在柱子(a)。 命令也许是任意的; 我击中了锣按这顺序; 4, 2, 1, 3...
Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a distributed operating system which originated from the Computing Science Research Center (CSRC) at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s and built on UNIX concepts first developed there in the late 1960s. The Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) is a student group at...
she was the head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria. She was murdered by a mob of Christian anti-pagan fanatics on the steps of an Alexandria church called The Caesarium– as a result of which, she has become a symbol of martyred Reason and of feminism. Stephen Greenblatt suggests th...
The next year the French Revolution erupted. As a symbol of the ancien regime, Buffon was denounced as an enemy of progress, his estates in Burgundy seized, and his son, known as the Buffonet, guillotined. In further insult to his memory, zealous revolutionaries marched through the king’s...
It also was increasingly used as a signe de renvoi (sign of return)—a graphic symbol which indicates where a correction or insertion should be made, with a corresponding mark in the margin with the correct text inserted. The asterisk is also found in medieval texts as a sign of omission....
Sumerian pictographic writing includes a sign for “star” that looks like a modern asterisk. These early writings from five thousand years ago are the first known depiction of an asterisk; however, it seems unlikely that these pictograms are the forerunner of the symbol we use today. Palaeogr...
The question involves fractions that feature a 1 in their numerator, like 1/2, 1/7 or 1/122. These “unit fractions” were especially important to the ancient Egyptians because they were the only types of fractions their number system contained: With the exception of a single symbol for 23...