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what is the proper name for the double dagger symbol,used to indicate footnotes?
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and read Line 7. It is called precisely what you called it yourself...a 'double dagger'! It has been so named since the 1700s, as a matter of interest.
Sorry to disagree with you QM but the term "diesis" in music originally came about after use by Philolaus (fl. c. 400 BC), as quoted by Boethius who used it to describe the interval that is normally known as a limma or Pythagorean minor semitone, with the ratio 256:243 = ~90.22499567 cents.
Much more confusingly the term has had at least 7 different uses throughout history all slightly different but when the term is unqualified, these days it generally is meant to refer to the ratio 128:125 = [2 3 5]^[7 0 -3] = ~41.05885841 (~411/17) cents.
I'm not quite sure what it is that you're disagreeing with me about, Sft! I simply quoted the basic Greek etymology as provided by The Oxford English Dictionary. I didn't really see much point in listing any of the massive musical detail such as the OED also provided, since the question was about printing-conventions, not music. But what the hey! Cheers anyway.
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