

This chapter is based on the 3.3 Math Guide. Please direct any comments or suggestions about this document to the Documentation Team’s mailing list: Everything you send to a mailing list, including your email address and any other personal information that is written in the message, is publicly archived and cannot be deleted. You may distribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either the GNU General Public License ( ), version 3 or later, or the Creative Commons Attribution License ( ), version 4.0 or later.Īll trademarks within this guide belong to their legitimate owners. This document is Copyright © 2012–2016 by the LibreOffice Documentation Team. keyboards, the tilde key is shared with the back quote, which may be shown next to or below the tilde symbol.LibreOffice’s Formula (Equation) Editor Copyright What is the other symbol on the tilde key?
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Access to the Tilda GTK+ terminal emulator.In mathematics, ~ indicates an approximate number.Access the console in programs and games such as Quake.Get to the home directory on a Linux computer (e.g., cd ~).For example, someone could say "It's going to be an exciting night~~~" while in chat.

In chat, someone might use the tilde to help indicate they're flirting or being playful.In C programming languages, the ~ represents a bitwise NOT.A file beginning with a tilde or a tilde and a dollar sign (e.g., ~$example.doc) is a temporary file.For example, to find cells containing a question mark, you would look for "~?" and not "?" in the Find what box. In Excel, the tilde treats the following character as a literal character, not a wildcard.In regular expressions, the tilde can be used for pattern matching.

For example, changing the "Program Files" directory to the "Progra~1" directory. Shorten long file names in Microsoft Windows 95 above.In languages like Spanish, the tilde is a diacritical mark over letters ( accent) such as 'ñ' and 'ã' to indicate alternate pronunciation of a consonant or vowel.What a tilde is used for on a computer?īelow are a few examples of how and when the tilde is used. To create a tilde on a smartphone or tablet's on-screen keyboard, tap the numbers button (123), then the symbols button (#+=). Creating the ~ symbol on a smartphone or tablet Doing the Alt code Alt+126 can also create a tilde.
