2006-10-08 02:53:14 · 4 answers · asked by freddddy123 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
This is the way the code for the "middot" sometimes appears. The middot -- simply the dot in the middle of a line-- is an "HTML character entity".
The "and" indicates the use of the "&" sign (ampersand) The actual code looks like this:
&-middot-; (except that you have to remove the dashes... if I had done so you would see the actual dot, not the HTML code for it).
The dot itself, if you can make it out, appears just below this line:
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You can find it in this list (of many HTML character entities) and what it looks like:
http://math.ucr.edu/~toby/characters/
2006-10-08 17:44:31 · answer #1 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its an advertising ploy to entice people to enter it into a search engine and get taken to totally unrelated advertising sites which just happen to have the word in the reference.
2006-10-08 12:02:11 · answer #2 · answered by Sue 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've never heard of that word before. Try looking that word up in the dictionary.
2006-10-12 02:31:37 · answer #3 · answered by Sam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means this is the 2nd time you have tried to find out what it means
2006-10-08 05:53:02 · answer #4 · answered by ttopcat2005 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋