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[-] clara@feddit.uk 38 points 2 days ago

> implying you don't know what an implication arrow is

it's one of these: >

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

What do they imply?

I know that these stories are often accused of being fake, but I guess I don't understand the context of the response. It seems like the responder is saying "go to the doctor regardless of whether you actually have a problem requiring a doctor." Which I guess could be good advice in some circumstances, but ... Maybe I'm just taking things too literally.

Thanks for the answer!

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I think it's that people understand that 99% of green text stories are not real, so the reply is just saying yo if this is real, go to a doc.

Maybe I'm wrong tho

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The anon got it wrong. These are ">" or "greater than" symbols, not arrows, although they look like arrowheads. They are used to signal a quote, which makes the text green on 4chan or inside a quote block on other platforms. In 4chan culture, the resulting greentext is not a quote, it has a meaning of its own.

The actual implication arrow, used in mathematical logic for statements like "if A, then B" or "A implies B", is "⇒" or "rightwards double arrow" in Unicode. Using ASCII characters, it can be written as "=>".

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