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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Nov 1996.
Re: infinity

Re: infinity

~ >Is the infinity symbol (the sleeping 8) an ASCII Symbol?
~ >
~ >If yes, what is its number?

On the Macintosh, it can be typed by typing option-5
It's code number is 176 ($B0).

However, since on the IBM it is a different code number (I'm not sure
what, though), I guess it really isn't ASCII (no character over 128 ($7F)
is, actually.)

Jeremy Olson = ols...@ici.net
http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/olson/olson.html

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From: ols...@ici.net (Jeremy J. Olson)
Subject: Re: infinity
Date: 1996/11/16
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references: <328...@mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> <328...@nntp.netcruiser>
organization: Uuh... Organization?
web-page: http://www.ici.net/cust_pages/olson/olson.html
newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
computer: Macintosh 6300CD (16MB/100MHz)
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