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Bob Bemer, one of the principals of the development of ASCII, argued that the backslash should be incorporated so that “and” (∧) could be written as /\ and “or”
by vincent-manis 3y ago
Bob Bemer, one of the principals of the development of ASCII, argued that the backslash should be incorporated so that “and” (∧) could be written as /\ and “or” (∨) as \/. The logic signs are derived from the Latin ac (or atque, “and”) and vel (“or”), respectively.