What ⌼ means
It cyclically shifted the items stored in a file.
In APL/700, a historical implementation of APL, files held an ordered sequence of components: individual values such as numbers or arrays, which are structured collections of data. ⌼ moved components along that sequence, with anything passing one end returning at the other. A negative shift amount reversed the direction.
For example, shifting a sequence of three items one place to the left moves the first item to the end. This changes their order, rather than turning a picture or page. The APL/700 User Reference Manual of April 1974 documents this operation.
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How to type or find ⌼
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- circle in a square · APL file rotation · quad circle symbol
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⌼CSS
\233CCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⌼
HTML hex
⌼
CSS content
content: "\233C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%8C%BC
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