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  2. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks

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    The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;

  3. 999 (number) - Wikipedia

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    999 was a London punk band active during the 1970s. 999 is also the short name for the visual novel Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. 999 is the last 3 digit number. It is also the last number in English written without a comma, as numbers above 999 must require a comma (e.g. numbers starting from 1,000 or more).

  4. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    As of Unicode version 16.0, there are 155,063 characters with code points, covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets.This article includes the 1,062 characters in the Multilingual European Character Set 2 subset, and some additional related characters.

  5. 999 - Wikipedia

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    999 or triple nine most often refers to: 999 (emergency telephone number), a telephone number for the emergency services in several countries; 999 (number), an integer;

  6. 0.999... - Wikipedia

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    The first two equalities can be interpreted as symbol shorthand definitions. The remaining equalities can be proven. The last step, that 10-n approaches 0 as approaches infinity (⁠ ⁠), is often justified by the Archimedean property of the real numbers. This limit-based attitude towards 0.999... is often put in more evocative but less ...

  7. Emergency telephone number - Wikipedia

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    The emergency number 999 was adopted in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1959 at the urging of Stephen Juba, mayor of Winnipeg at the time. [4] The city changed the number to 911 in 1972, in order to be consistent with the newly adopted U.S. emergency number. [5] Several other countries besides the UK have adopted 999 as their emergency number.

  8. Names of large numbers - Wikipedia

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    In this way, numbers up to 10 3·999+3 = 10 3000 (short scale) or 10 6·999 = 10 5994 (long scale) may be named. The choice of roots and the concatenation procedure is that of the standard dictionary numbers if n is 9 or smaller. For larger n (between 10 and 999), prefixes can be constructed based on a system described by Conway and Guy. [17]

  9. 000 (emergency telephone number) - Wikipedia

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    Police 101 is the police single non-emergency telephone number in the United Kingdom (UK) which automatically connects the caller to their local police force (with the option to select a different police force if required), in a similar manner to the 999 emergency telephone number. 108 is the emergency telephone number in India.