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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've never seen that being used, but it seems it's a thing in English. What if you wanna best deeper? Do you go {}? Then <>? «»?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not really an English thing so much as a math thing that makes too much sense to not use elsewhere. For instance, in math you might have x[3 - 7{3y + (a * b)}]. I haven't actually seen them go deeper than three sets, though, so I'm not sure what would be next.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    at that point I start recycling them, and go back to parenthesis.

    so when bp = 300x - 3, this:

    4( 4[ 4{ 15bp + 10 } - 375 ] - 2250 ) - 15000

    would turn to

    4( 4[ 4{ 15( 300x - 3) + 10 } - 375 ] - 2250 ) - 15000

    perhaps not the best, but I rather stick to conventional symbols rather than using... idk, question marks? that'd be funny as hell, though

    just picture it:

    4© 4« 4¿ 15bp + 10 ? - 375 » - 2250 🄯 - 15000

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