Posted: Jul 25, 2013 1:11 pm
Precambrian Rabbi wrote:Nora_Leonard wrote:
Thanks. I suppose there's no way to insert the ≠ sign in the forum without copying and pasting it from another app.
OT: Wikipedia has a list of symbols commonly used for unequal (under its entry on "equal sign"), most of which are 'plain text friendly' and a number of which I have seen used here, particularly =/= and !=.
<> seems the most natural to me; I'm pretty sure that's what I was taught and school and, being a heavy excel user, I regularly use the expression as such in formulas. I also find some satisfaction in the bold logic of it. If n<y and/or n>y then it can be deduced that n may be anything at all except y.
Ah, yes, I've seen =/=. But the one I pasted in was how we did "not equal" in school. I honestly had never seen the <> version.
mattthomas wrote:Is that the old British Railways logo?
You mean this?
