What ⌼ means
It rotated the ordered components of a file.
APL/700 files held components—individual APL values, such as numbers or arrays—in sequence. ⌼ shifted them circularly: items moved off one end reappeared at the other, and a negative amount turned the shift the other way.
Other APL/700 file commands read or wrote components, selected or removed them at either end, and compressed or expanded the ordered set. The APL/700 User Reference Manual, published in April 1974, documents this operation.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ⌼ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ⌼
- Also called
- quad circle
- Search it as
- APL/700 file rotation · APL/700 rotate file · quad circle APL
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⌼\233CCodes and encoding1 code points
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