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From: taylor@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP (Jem Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Re: compound statements ( side note )
Message-ID: <659@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Jul-86 09:51:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 29 09:51:07 1986
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Reply-To: taylor@glasgow.UUCP (Jem Taylor)
Organization: Comp Sci Dept, Glasgow Univ, Scotland
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>> According to quantum physicists, < > are brackets.  The < is called
>> a "bra" and the > is a "ket"...

I'm a pedant too ! I believe '<' and '>' to be 'carets', rather than 'brackets'.
If anyone really cares, they could look up that word in a dictionary; I haven't.

-Jem.

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