false_vacuum comments on Draft/wiki: Infinities and measuring infinite sets: A quick reference - Less Wrong

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Comment author: false_vacuum 27 December 2010 03:17:37PM 0 points [-]

How do I get the × html entity?

Comment author: Sniffnoy 27 December 2010 10:34:51PM 1 point [-]

In a comment, SFAIK, you don't. How posts are written and how comments are written are not consistent. Though if you're willing to rely on people defaulting to the correct encoding, you could always just paste the character in directly...

Comment author: saturn 28 December 2010 06:22:36AM 0 points [-]

if you're willing to rely on people defaulting to the correct encoding

This site has proper Content-Type headers, so it should work fine in all sane browsers.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 28 December 2010 07:29:24AM 0 points [-]

Oh, that's good to know! I honestly didn't think to check that. I'd forgotten they existed.

Comment author: false_vacuum 28 December 2010 03:58:10AM 0 points [-]

I'll try that now.

Comment author: false_vacuum 28 December 2010 04:00:34AM 0 points [-]

It worked! (At least for me.)