• number sign, hash, or pound sign. The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes including the designation of an ordinal number and...
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  • In computing, signed number representations are required to encode negative numbers in binary number systems. In mathematics, negative numbers in any base...
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    since 1975. In the United States, "pound sign" refers to the symbol # (number sign). In Canada ”pound sign” can mean £ or #. The symbol derives from...
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    In mathematics, the sign of a real number is its property of being either positive, negative, or 0. Depending on local conventions, zero may be considered...
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  • The numero sign or numero symbol, № (also represented as Nº, No̱, No. or no.), is a typographic abbreviation of the word number(s) indicating ordinal numeration...
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  • The percent sign % (sometimes per cent sign in British English) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage, a number or ratio as a fraction of 100. Related...
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    Goodman's Fields, instead of signs, the houses are distinguished by numbers". Parts of the Paris suburbs were numbered in the 1720s; the houses in the...
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    or masculine signs, are the six odd-numbered signs of the zodiac: Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. Positive signs make up the fire...
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  • March 2011. Greek number systems - MacTutor https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2004/04054-greek-zero.pdf https://raymondm.co.uk/prog/GreekZeroSign.pdf Neugebauer...
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  • Sign extension (sometimes abbreviated as sext, particularly in mnemonics) is the operation, in computer arithmetic, of increasing the number of bits of...
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  • "The Sign" is a song by Swedish group Ace of Base from their first North American studio album, The Sign (1993), and their re-released debut studio album...
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    international telephone number in writing or print, starting with a plus sign ("+") and the country code. When calling an international number from a landline...
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  • greater-than sign is typically placed between two values being compared and signifies that the first number is greater than the second number. Examples of...
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  • The at sign, @, is an accounting and invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 per widget = £14), now seen more widely in email...
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    natural sign bears a causal relation to its object—for instance, thunder is a sign of storm, or medical symptoms a sign of disease. A conventional sign signifies...
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    the sign of a given real number is positive or negative, or the given number is itself zero. In mathematical notation the sign function is often represented...
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  • the less-than sign is typically placed between two values being compared and signifies that the first number is less than the second number. Examples of...
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  • The plus sign (+) and the minus sign (−) are mathematical symbols used to denote positive and negative functions, respectively. In addition, + represents...
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    sign Motorway number sign Motorway spur number sign (not an official road sign but it is used) International tunnel number sign State highway number sign...
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  • Sharp (music) (redirect from Sharp sign)
    sharp sign, while the number sign (#) may have slanted lines instead.[citation needed] It is also etymologically independent from the number sign. Likewise...
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    emphasis. The shaka sign is similar to the letter Y in the American manual alphabet in American Sign Language or the sign for number six in the Chinese...
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  • encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially...
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  • took place a month earlier. In Russian orthography, the sign almost always follows the number (the monetary value), and in many cases there is a space...
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  • A sign-on (or start-up in Commonwealth countries except Canada) is the beginning of operations for a radio or television station, generally at the start...
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  • Signed zero is zero with an associated sign. In ordinary arithmetic, the number 0 does not have a sign, so that −0, +0 and 0 are equivalent. However, in...
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    The dollar sign, also known as the peso sign, is a currency symbol consisting of a capital ⟨S⟩ crossed with one or two vertical strokes ($ or depending...
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  • ranked number 474 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Rolling Stone also ranked the song "Thirteen" as number 406 on...
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  • Earl E.; Alexopoulos, Aristides Georgiou (December 1975). "The Sign/Logarithm Number System". IEEE Transactions on Computers. C-24 (12). IEEE: 1238–1242...
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    Sign 254 Sign 255 Sign 257-50 Sign 257-51 Sign 257-52 Sign 257-53 Sign 257-54 Sign 257-55 Sign 257-56 Sign 257-57 Sign 257-58 Sign 259 Sign 260 Sign 261...
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  • No symbol (🚫), the general prohibition sign Numero sign (№ or No.), a typographic symbol for the word "number" Norwegian language (ISO 639-1 code "no")...
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