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What is the formal name of the '@' symbol as defined in the Unicode standard?

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Commercial at

While commonly called the 'at' symbol, it was originally used in accounting to mean 'at the rate of.' Ray Tomlinson chose it for email in 1971 because it was rarely used and clearly separated the user name from the host name.

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