Histo(e)ry of Unicode?
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I had some use for weird unicode today and among other things looked at what fractions are available. Well, there is kind of reasonable set. And then there is ↉. Right. Zero thirds. WTF‽ All the other vulgar fractions provided are, reasonably, irreducible.
Now, we can of course make fun of it. But I am genuinely interested, is there any place where one could look why some character got allocated? It is a committee, so I'd think somebody had to make a proposal and explain it and it had to be voted on and all that and that should have left some trace. So is there some place where one could look it up?
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Man, I've got to get an updated font set on this work laptop or something. Chrome just renders all the weird unicode that goes on around here as boxes.
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Zero thirds. WTF‽
Baseball scoring. Add it to your google search for "zero thirds"
So is there some place where one could look it up?
used in baseball scoring, from ARIB STD B24
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You beat me to answer that.
See last item of wikipedia table: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_Forms
Vulgar Fraction Zero Thirds (used in baseball scoring)
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Also can anybody tell me what is that weird slash they use on the wikipedia article to have the stroke in the image column, namely:
⁄
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Also can anybody tell me what is that weird slash they use on the wikipedia article to have the stroke in the image column, namely:
It's called a solidus1. From the source (well the edit page):
<sup>0</sup>⁄<sub>3</sub>
-> 0⁄3- Or more colloquially a 'forward slash' - you may have found them when you've been browsing HTML, or websites in general
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I did inspect the source, and I don't remember seeing this char anywhere I've been browsing. Can you explain what this char has to do with forwarding?
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Can you explain what this char has to do with forwarding?
It resembles the shape urine takes when someone is having a slash, if you're standing on that person's left side.
'Forwarde' is (well, was) an olde englishe term for left, hence 'forward slash'.
Likewise 'backe' is the olde englishe for what we now term 'right', hence \ is commonly known as a 'back slash.'
Bit like widdershins & deosil vs anticlockwise (or counterclockwise) & clockwise, but more got lost in the translation with those, obviously.
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Also can anybody tell me what is that weird slash they use on the wikipedia article to have the stroke in the image column, namely:
⁄
The Unicode database calls it U+2044 FRACTION SLASH.
It's called a solidus1.
- Or more colloquially a 'forward slash' - you may have found them when you've been browsing HTML, or websites in general
No, it isn't. Solidus is U+002F SOLIDUS and yes, you can see that in HTML source code a lot. But this one is not the same solidus.
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Pff what lies PJH is ready to tell just so he can talk about urine.
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It resembles the shape urine takes when someone is having a slash
Then why isn't it called a liquidus?
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Because the Romans hadn't invented Latin in London by then. keep Up!
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Ah I see we have an Uxbridge English Dictionary player.
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Reminds me of my car's fuel gauge:
It should definitely use 0/3, 1/3, 2/3, and 1/1.
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Ah I see we have an Uxbridge English Dictionary player.
Countryside: to kill Piers Morgan.
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