The degree symbol, in Unicode: U+00B0 ° degree sign (HTML: ° °), is a typographical symbol that is used, among other things, to represent degrees of arc (e.g. in geographic coordinate systems) or degrees of temperature. The symbol consists of a small raised circle, historically a zero glyph.
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“Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.”
—Francis Picabia (1878–1953)
“The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant’s economy is a coarse symbol of the soul’s economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)