alt-0133 on the numeric keypad is the elipsis character.

Traditionally, an elipsis has only 3 dots.

>>To think, my English vocabulary is actually improving by maintaining this blog.

English perhaps.
Being from a French-speaking family, I simply *have* to comment on the use of "viola", which is a musical instrument. Americans always screw this up, the word is "voilà".

(I say the above facetiously.)

RichB, I use the ellipsis in writing too. I could never remember any of those alt character codes though so I used the Character Map a lot. But now that I'm such a heavy Word user, I've come to rely on Word auto-correcting my "..." (period-period-period) into an ellipsis, which is interesting only because I hated that feature when it first came out. I guess things change given enough time.

You're probably right, PeterD, but in diagrams I excercise plenty of artistic freedom.

I find it funny that I can't spell "voilà" after taking French for 6 years. I don't think I retained any knowledge from that class. I could have sworn it was "violá" though now that I've seen your spelling, that looks totally wrong.

Thanks for the comments... a record number!

if any one knows the reason why ellipsis has 3 dots and who started using it in math, thanks

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