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Old 08-15-2007, 07:08 PM  
Elli
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Originally Posted by Libertine View Post
The exclamation mark means "not".
A more commonly accepted version of what he was saying would have been: "$20k in 1 month != $1k daily", where "!=" means "is not equal to".

He switched the = and the !, but it can still mean the same thing. (=! is, among some people, another shorthand for the "is not equal to" sign)
Well put. It's pretty standard programming shorthand, really.
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