Therefore sign specialized keyboards and fonts, and to prevent compatibility issues, it's often substituted by a colon followed by a period (":.") even if it's considered more elegant to use the original therefore character in printing. Therefore sign In logical argument and mathematical proof, the therefore sign (∴) is generally used before a logical consequence, such as the conclusion of a syllogism. The symbol consists of three dots placed in an upright triangle and is read "therefore". It is encoded at . For common use in Microsoft Office hold the ALT key and type "8756". While it is not generally used in
Sierpinski triangle Sierpinski triangle The Sierpinski triangle (also with the original orthography "Sierpiński"), also called the Sierpinski gasket or the Sierpinski sieve, is a fractal and attractive fixed set with the overall shape of an equilateral triangle, subdivided recursively into smaller equilateral triangles. Originally constructed as a curve, this is one of the basic examples of self-similar sets, i.e., it is a mathematically generated pattern that is reproducible at any magnification or reduction. It is named after the Polish mathematician Wacław Sierpiński, but appeared as a decorative pattern many centuries before the work of Sierpiński. There are many different ways of constructing