Re: Is zero even or odd?

From: YD (yd.techHAT_at_techie.com)
Date: 12/22/04


Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 07:26:13 -0300

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 04:09:21 +0000, John Woodgate
<jmw@jmwa.demon.contraspam.yuk> wrote:

>I read in sci.electronics.design that Nicholas O. Lindan <see@sig.com>
>wrote (in <zv4yd.7675$Z47.4756@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>) about
>'Is zero even or odd?', on Wed, 22 Dec 2004:
>
>>Slightly OT, is there an accepted ASCII-gram for square root?
>
>I've seen v/(x) used; it's fairly evident what it means. I just found
>that decimal 175 is an 'overscore' character, ¯, which means that v/¯(x)
>could be used.

Not all newsreaders or fontsets may be able to render that correctly.
Though I doubt anyone is still using 7-bit ASCII.
>
>How about) for cube root?

There, you see? It became a ) for me.

- YD.

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