• clara@feddit.uk
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    20 hours ago

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

    it’s one of these: >

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      19 hours 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!

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        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

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      14 hours 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 “=>”.