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context: a follow up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012865 (2022), a post which started the hunt for the mysterios origin of this unicode symbol.

That's become of the most memorable threads on Hacker News to me. I definitely think about it at least once most weeks.

Closure finally!

Well not really though. It still doesn't answer where the symbol came from; just where it was first catalogued.

Presumably its original use was in some yet-unfound paper or manual where they needed a symbol for azimuth.

what will i do... with all this extra time....

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