Known as right angle with downwards zigzag arrow, angle with down zig-zag arrow,
\rangledownzigzagarrow, and⍼, no one knows what ⍼ is meant to represent or where it originated from. Section 22.7 Technical Symbols from the Unicode Standard on the Miscellaneous Technical block doesn’t say anything about it.
Who doesn’t love a good what-the-hell-is-this-glyph story?
I want to remember (being my memory as terrible as it is) saw it in while studying at my carrear used for two-dimension graphs meaning that the vertical axis is not proportional (or something of the likes).
As it happens “&carrear;” is the equally mysterious HTML glyph of the back of a Morris Minor.
*grin* Reminds me of another one which I think you clued me onto:
widespacer.blogspot.com and its posts like The Lost Key of QWERTY and The Sign of the Number
As always, there’s an XKCD that covers the subject:
https://xkcd.com/2606
Funny enough, that’s so recent that it feels like Randall rushed to ensure the universe didn’t end for a lack of a relevant xkcd comic.
(This and that comic showed up in the same morning’s RSS batch for me.)
Thought I’d bring something up. Knowing I’ve come across this symbol before: two places I clearly remember it were manuals (of sorts) that came with two different 8-bit kit computers I once had a LONG time ago. In both cases they we’re wire to case bolt grounds. The angle being the case shell and the bolt for electric.
Whatever it’s origin it has been used in electrical wiring, which lends some credence to the idea of underground wiring locations on maps?