It's funny that the character got recognized as U+12017 CUNEIFORM SIGN AB2
TIMES BALAG. This reminds me
of an early OCR program called Cuneiform.
I believe that the intent was to depict U+225C ≜ DELTA EQUAL TO = equal to
by definition
Leo
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:46 AM, David Starner <prosfilaes_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> http://archive.org/details/bitsavers_sdcjovialTerDec61_12294913 is a
> 1961 programming book on the programming language Jovial. On page 7ff
> is a character I've never seen before; I'm pretty sure it's
> overprinting, but I'm not sure of what. I've attached an image to this
> email message.
>
> The text says "The metasymbol 𒀗 signifies syntactic equivalence,
> while the colon
> signifies concatenation and the semicolon ; signifies selection between
> adjacent elements."
>
> --
> Kie ekzistas vivo, ekzistas espero.
>
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