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§ what does this symbol mean/stand for?
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Answer 1

The section sign (§; Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity §) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. It is frequently used along with the pilcrow (¶), or paragraph sign. When duplicated, as §§, it is read as the plural "sections" (§§ 13–21), much as "pp." (pages) is the plural of "p." (page). The sign itself is supposed to have developed from the Hebrew letter gimel (ג). Its usage was similar to paragraphos.

Like the dagger (†) and double dagger (‡), it is also sometimes used to link to a footnote where the asterisk (*) is already in use on a given page; however, these usages are declining in favour of numbered footnotes, usually linked by a superscripted (or, decreasingly, [square bracketed]) number.

It is also used to represent a type specimen in animals.

Many Maxis games from SimCity 3000 on, including The Sims and The Sims 2, use this symbol (with an unusually small loop) to represent the unit of currency in the SimNation, the simoleon.

Answer 2

section sign

The section signThe section sign (§; Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity §) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. It is frequently used along with the pilcrow (¶), or paragraph sign. When duplicated, as §§, it is read as the plural "sections" (§§ 13–21), much as "pp." (pages) is the plural of "p." (page). The sign itself is supposed to have developed from the Hebrew letter gimel (ג). Its usage was similar to paragraphos.

Answer 3

It stand for "section" of something....usually laws