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The ampersand can be used to indicate that the "and" in a listed item is a part of the item's name and not a separator (e.g. "Rock, pop, rhythm & blues and hip hop"). [citation needed] The ampersand may still be used as an abbreviation for "and" in informal writing regardless of how "and" is used.
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The + sign is a simplification of the Latin: et (comparable to the evolution of the ampersand &). [7] The − may be derived from a macron ̄ written over m when used to indicate subtraction; or it may come from a shorthand version of the letter m itself. [8] From Johannes Widmann's book on "handy and pretty arithmetic for all merchants" [9] [10]
Ampersand's Entertainment Guide, originally Ampersand, a college magazine supplement; Ampersand, a student newspaper at Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu – National-Louis University; Ampersand, an online magazine at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism; The Ampersand, Eton College school magazine
Chris Messina suggested using hashtags on Twitter. The number sign or hash symbol, #, has long been used in information technology to highlight specific pieces of text. In 1970, the number sign was used to denote immediate address mode in the assembly language of the PDP-11 [12] when placed next to a symbol or a number, and around 1973, '#' was introduced in the C programming language to ...
Positurae first reached England in the late 10th century, probably during the Benedictine reform movement, but was not adopted until after the Norman conquest. The original positurae were the punctus , punctus elevatus , [ 10 ] punctus versus , and punctus interrogativus , but a fifth symbol, the punctus flexus , was added in the 10th century ...
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In contrast to the syncopated notations of their predecessors, Diophantus and Brahmagupta, which lacked symbols for mathematical operations, [46] al-Qalasadi's algebraic notation was the first to have symbols for these functions and was thus "the first steps toward the introduction of algebraic symbolism."