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Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:55:02 2010 No.1509875 [DELETED]

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I've been seeing, != and, /=/= or something like that.

But what do these signs mean and why?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:56:02 2010 No.1509881 not equal to != is better imo

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:57:04 2010 No.1509885 They both mean "not equal to"

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:57:04 2010 No.1509888 >>1509881 truth

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:57:47 2010 No.1509892 or you could not be faggots and use ≠

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:58:07 2010 No.1509894 Did these get created on 4chan?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:58:07 2010 No.1509900 computer scientists are so annoying it's <span class="math">\neq[/spoiler]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 28 23:59:10 2010 No.1509904 >>1509900 wait...why isn't my TeX rendering correctly

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 29 00:00:52 2010 No.1509908 >>1509881 >>1509888 Actually, =/= is the real hand-written way of expressing "not equal to". != is used by computer languages which then appear as the =/= sign (as a single character). Nobody writes it like that by hand.