What is the ¬ symbol called on a British Windows keyboard? [closed]
What is the ¬ symbol on a British Windows keyboard called? You get to it by pressing Shift and the key left of the '1'.
As far as I'm aware, I've always seen this referred to as a negation symbol. That is its primary use: to negate a logical evaluation in formal logic.
SoftwareEngineering.SE seems to agree with me:
The only use I've seen for the
¬
symbol is to represent negation in the context of formal logic. For instance, ifP
is the proposition "It will rain today", then¬P
is the proposition "It will not rain today." I've also seen~
used for this.
Also note the first comment in the linked post:
That character is
U+00AC NOT SIGN
and is one of the many notations for logical negation.
Unicode does indeed list this character as "NOT SIGN", which is shorthand for "negation symbol".