Q: Is a bracket a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text? ¶
A: Yes, and to set apart or interject other text.
Q: Are brackets used to indicate that the year is part of the citation and parentheses are used to indicate the year the judgment was given? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are brackets used in mathematics in a variety of notations? ¶
A: Yes, and including standard notations for intervals, commutators, the floor function, the Lie bracket, equivalence classes, the Iverson bracket, and matrices.
Q: Are brackets used as a substitute for the inner pair of parentheses within the outer pair? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are brackets used in many computer programming languages? ¶
A: Yes, and primarily to force the order of evaluation and for parameter lists and array indexing.
Q: Are brackets used to denote parts of the text that need to be checked when preparing drafts prior to finalizing a document? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are brackets independent of the rest of the text: "Mrs"? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are brackets used to signify the same word or phrase in the original language to avoid ambiguity? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are brackets used in some countries in the citation of law reports to identify parallel citations to non-official reporters? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are brackets used for unordered sets? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Is a bracket known as closed? ¶
A: Yes, and whereas the endpoint adjoining the parenthesis is known as open.
Q: Is a bracket most commonly used to refer to a specific type of bracket: in modern American usage this is usually the square bracket and in modern British usage this is usually the round bracket? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are brackets the same? ¶
A: Yes, and the entire interval may be referred to as closed or open as appropriate.
Q: Is a bracket also used to denote the Lie derivative? ¶
A: Yes, or more generally the Lie bracket in any Lie algebra.
Q: Are brackets used to denote an interval? ¶
A: Yes, and also referred to as a half-open range.
Q: Are brackets used as quotation marks? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are brackets often also used to denote the Poisson bracket between two quantities? ¶
A: Yes.
Q: Are brackets already in use, or for a special purpose specific to the publication? ¶
A: Yes, More commonly, they are used to indicate a group of lines that should be taken together, as in when referring to several lines of poetry that should be repeated.