Common communication links such as 10 Mbit / s Ethernet ( 10Base-T ), USB, and FireWire typically have a symbol rate slightly higher than the data bit rate, due to the overhead of extra non-data symbols used for self-synchronizing code and error detection.

With its roots in dadaism, it started to take form towards the end of the 1950s when some European artists started to make the symbols and products of the world of advertising and propaganda the main subject of their artistic work.

Sometimes Chinese people use the term " Descendants of the Dragon " () as a sign of ethnic identity, as part of a trend started in the 1970s when different Asian nationalities were looking for animal symbols for representations.

Sodipodi started a collection of SVG clip art containing symbols and flags from around the world.

Tens of thousands of years later, writing systems that use images for words or morphemes — e. g. logographies such as Egyptian and Chinese — started simplifying people and other objects to be used as linguistic symbols.

On 4 December, a week before the siege started, Ripperda ' cleaned ' the Sint-Bavokerk of all catholic symbols.

Jose Enrique started a strong advertising campaign and in 1963 introduced the " Cafe Yaucono " character " Mama Ines ", becoming one the biggest marketing symbols in Puerto Rican history.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

However, it is essential that the various mathematical symbols used in the equations be understood so that the mathematical processes can be done properly and in their correct order.

When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.

Numbers separated by addition symbols may be placed in any order.

Since emotional reactions in the higher vertebrates depend on individual experience and are aroused in man, in addition, by complex symbols, one would expect that the hypothalamus could be excited from the cortex.

In this way a degree of unification of nomenclature, symbols, and units will be realized.

Hereby, the external object viewed by the eyes remains the thing that is seen, not the retinal image, the purpose of which would be to achieve perceptive cooperation by stirring sympathetic impulses in the other sensory centers, motor tensions, associated word symbols, and consciousness.

Mythological concepts may by all means still be used, but they can be used responsibly only as `` symbols '' or `` ciphers '', that is, only if they are also constantly interpreted in nonmythological ( or existential ) terms.

Expressions like or contain symbols and in equal amounts ; they are ambiguous and should be avoided in serious deduction.

But humans can do something equally useful, in the case of certain enumerably infinite sets: They can give explicit instructions for determining the nth member of the set, for arbitrary finite n. Such instructions are to be given quite explicitly, in a form in which they could be followed by a computing machine, or by a human who is capable of carrying out only very elementary operations on symbols.

The creation of anagrams assumes an alphabet, the symbols which are to be permuted.

According to federal guidelines, only approved religious symbols — of which there are 38 — can be placed on government headstones or memorial plaques.

On a more abstract level, model theoretic arguments hold that a given set of symbols in a theory can be mapped onto any number of sets of real-world objects — each set being a " model " of the theory — providing the interrelationships between the objects are the same.

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Notice how any symbols, letters, numbers, or even words — whatever serves as a convenient label — can be used as the label inside a ket.

Blissymbols or Blissymbolics was conceived as an ideographic writing system called Semantography consisting of several hundred basic symbols, each representing a concept, which can be composed together to generate new symbols that represent new concepts.

As the “ tourist explosion ” took place in the 1960s, a number of researchers were looking for new standard symbols to be used at roads, stations, airports, etc.

These symbols may be placed above any other symbol, turning it respectively into a “ thing ”, an “ action ”, and an “ evaluation ”:

When a symbol is not marked by any of the three grammar symbols ( square, cone, inverted cone ), they may be a non material thing, a grammatical particle, etc.

Since Parts 1, and 2, were prepared independently, the abbreviation schemes and the chemical symbols used differ in the two parts.

And why did the Chinese suddenly begin to talk about the Five Directions, when the animals they used as symbols of the directions designated only the usual four??

An alphabet is a standard set of letters ( basic written symbols or graphemes ) which is used to write one or more languages based on the general principle that the letters represent phonemes ( basic significant sounds ) of the spoken language.

The vowels are significant in the Greek language, and the syllabical Linear B script which was used by the Mycenaean Greeks from the 16th century BC had 87 symbols including 5 vowels.

Their logo of the anchor and dolphin is represented today in the symbols and names used by some modern publishers such as Doubleday.

A distinctive West Arabic variant of the symbols begins to emerge around the 10th century in the Maghreb and Al-Andalus, called ghubar (" sand-table " or " dust-table ") numerals, which are the direct ancestor of the modern Western Arabic numerals used throughout the world.

The symbols used to represent the system have split into various typographical variants since the Middle Ages:

White deer are common in English legends and often used as symbols of Christian virtue.

" Of the many themes that were used on local coinage, celestial and astral symbols often appeared, mostly stars or crescent moons.

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

In practice, on limited keyboards of the day, source programs often used the sequences $( and )$ in place of the symbols

The method most commonly used today uses prefixes such as kilo, mega, giga, and corresponding symbols K, M, and G,

According to Arika Okrent, Bliss used to complain about the way the teachers at the OCCC were using the symbols, in relation with the proportions of the symbols and other questions: for example, they used “ fancy ” terms like “ nouns ” and “ verbs ”, to describe what Bliss called “ things ” and “ actions ”.

ASCII was introduced in 1963 and is a 7-bit encoding scheme used to encode letters, numerals, symbols, and device control codes as fixed-length codes using integers.

With his advances in the atomic theory of matter, John Dalton devised his own simpler symbols, based on circles, which were to be used to depict molecules.

In this typographical system chemical symbols are not used as mere abbreviations – though each consists of letters of the Latin alphabet – they are symbols intended to be used by peoples of all languages and alphabets.