#BRACES BRACKETS CODE#
Square brackets appeared with some teleprinters.īraces (curly brackets) first became part of a character set with the 8-bit code of the IBM 7030 Stretch. Most typewriters only had the left and right parentheses. Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus coined the term lunula to refer to the round brackets or parentheses ( ) recalling the shape of the crescent moon ( Latin: luna). Various forms of brackets are used in mathematics, with specific mathematical meanings, often for denoting specific mathematical functions and subformulas.Īngle brackets or chevrons ⟨ ⟩ were the earliest type of bracket to appear in written English. There are also various less common symbols considered brackets.
In British usage they are known as round brackets (or simply brackets), square brackets, curly brackets, and angle brackets in American usage they are respectively known as parentheses, brackets, braces, and chevrons. There are four primary types of brackets. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the directionality of the context. A bracket, as used in British English, is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings.
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