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Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by esperent on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @10:38AM (#31015172)
> the thunderbolt ↯ is commonly used for "not" or more specifically for dis-proof in this area and

I don't think it's that common. At least, I don't recall seeing it ever. Maybe it's used in non-English mathematics?

Wikipedia mentions it's also used in electrolysis so maybe this new one is related to that somehow?

Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by maze-le on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:32AM (#31015897)
It's used in german mathematics education (secondary level), either to mark a contradiction in a proof or more generally to mark an erroneous statement.
Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by dirkt on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:18AM (#31023359)
But I have never seen it to mark negation of a condition, that's usually done with a slash (as in ≠ ≮ ≯ ≰ ≱ ≴ ≵ ⊄ ⊅ ⊈ ⊉ ⊊ ⊋ ∉ ∌ ∄ ∦, you get the idea).

So for "not a right angle" I'd have expected a "right angle" symbol with a slash through it.

Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by maze-le on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:01PM (#31029737)
Funny enough, I've only seen it at the Gymnasium (secondary level) and not in the University a few years later -- then indeed the usual symbols were the 'slashed' relations like you've described, or the bottom symbol: ⊥ in logic. Maybe it's an idiosyncrasy of a certain subset of math teachers.
Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by r0uv3n on Thursday April 14, 2022 @06:50AM (#31025194)
But how would you position the slash to get a somewhat easy to decipher symbol? To me, the right angle symbol seems to lend itself more to this unorthodox negation through the contradiction symbol than to negation through the normal slash.
Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by ruuda on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @11:57AM (#31016252)
Also in Dutch universities to mark a contradiction, especially in a proof by contradiction.
Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by qiskit on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @12:12PM (#31016452)
Same. Never seen that symbol in my life. I've seen ¬, ~, !, etc used for not/negation in computer science, math, logic, etc.

And some commenters said they used it to mark proof by contradiction, but why is there a need to mark it when you are showing it via proof? A canonical example of proof by contradiction is proving sqrt(2) is not rational. Never have I seen it marked with that symbol. Where would you even mark it? At the beginning with the assumption? Or at the end like QED?

Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by AaronFriel on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @02:32PM (#31018412)
Math degree holder from Iowa, yeah, I've seen and used it many times. The symbol is used when you reach the contradictory statement. Like "1 = 2".

"By way of contradiction suppose P, then ..., thus ~P ↯. Therefore ..."

Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by nerdponx on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:38PM (#31021670)
I've actually always wanted a way to mark "the contradiction" once I've obtained it. Thanks!
Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by phogster on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:22PM (#31021540)
To me that reads: I throw your assumption into the GROUND!
Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by valtism on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:58PM (#31020815)
I was taught it in extracurricular mathematics in Australia. We were taught that it goes at the end of a contradiction proof once the contradiction has been found. We used to write it extra large, like lightning strike. I think of it like a proof mic-drop.
Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by ceh123 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @01:04PM (#31017178)
It's the first symbol referenced for symbols used in proof by contradiction to show contradiction [0]. I know that's not exactly "not" or "disproof" but I think that might be what the poster was getting at.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contradiction#Symbolic_represe...

Re:U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow by ratmice on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @12:32PM (#31016741)
I believe I have seen it used as a symbol which indicates the discharge of an assumption, but never for "not".