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Slash (punctuation) - Wikipedia The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names Once used as the equivalent of the modern period and comma, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, as a date separator, or to connect alternative terms
List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia As of Unicode version 16 0, there are 292,531 assigned characters with code points, [1] covering 168 modern and historical scripts, as well as multiple symbol sets As it is not technically possible to list all of these characters in a single Wikipedia page, this list is limited to a subset of the most important characters for English-language readers, with links to other pages which list the
List of logic symbols - Wikipedia In logic, a set of symbols is commonly used to express logical representation The following table lists many common symbols, together with their name, how they should be read out loud, and the related field of mathematics
Apostrophe - Wikipedia Introduced by Geoffroy Tory (1529), [5] the apostrophe was used in place of a vowel letter to indicate elision (as in l'heure in place of la heure) It was also frequently used in place of a final "e" (which was still pronounced at the time) when it was elided before a vowel, as in un' heure
Exclamation mark - Wikipedia Graphically, the exclamation mark is represented by variations on the theme of a period with a vertical line above One theory of its origin posits derivation from a Latin exclamation of joy, namely io, analogous to "hooray"; copyists wrote the Latin word io at the end of a sentence, to indicate expression of joy
Backslash - Wikipedia The backslash \ is a mark used mainly in computing and mathematics It is the mirror image of the common slash It is a relatively recent mark, first documented in the 1930s