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Well, we've got a citation now, but it's a web page quoting a book instead of the book itself. Someone (maybe me, but not today) should check the book, not only just to make sure as one always should, but also to see if we can replace "" with "∎" or "□" or the like.
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OK, I've checked it. It's actually a hollow rectangle in the book (U+25AF — ▯, white verticale rectangle). So, I've removed "by Miller" except from References since it still should be helpful. Here's the piece of interest from the scanned book, just in case —
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In my church it is used in the book containing the readings from the bible to indicate that the text does not continue on the next page so as a speaker you do not flip pages during holy mass without need.
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despite the article name, this page entirely focuses on the usage in mathematics, not the original typographical one from which it is derived. This should be added, and the article maybe merged with
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I remember being told by an instructor that Poincare started the use of the symbol in place of QED, as a pun on his name ("point carré"). Is that apocryphal?
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I duno, I think that's classsified as common knowledge or something... that's how I learned it.
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Can someone provide a citation for the name "halmos" for this character? I checked the
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which seems to be another variation of the same idea. --
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