Hi James,
I appreciate the research, and the humor! 2 pis = peace, eh?
(not on the unicode list! :-) but I like that especially since
the issue of a name has been problematic. e to the i peace =1
circumference = peace times r, integral from zero to peace,
period = peace over frequency, has a
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For my part at least, I feel it is important to explain to proponents WHY
their proposed characters may not be suitable for encoding, rather than
simply telling them No.
I thought that had been done quite well.
I think the Unicode Consortium
This is the same situation as having one person in town be the mural
painter and another be the news photographer. Is every news photographer
required to paint murals, too, or be otherwise accused of hampering
artistic evolution?
That seems to be the wrong analogy. The question is
Oh my! I have to agree, the discussion on the impact of symbol
uniformization IS extremely enlightening to me, although I'm
somewhat apologetic again from distracting everyone from more
serious and practical issues. Thank you all for your thoughtful
responses, both on and off-group!
On Fri, 18
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure I see anything new here. However, as I suggested, Dr. Beebe's
intention was to bring the character to the discussion within the
mathematical community where its potential for usefulness MIGHT be
sufficient to encourage its appearance and
Lars Kristan wrote:
3.14... is to a circle what 4 is to a square. It is the relationship between
the diameter and the circumference.
No it is NOT, mathematically. The square whose Perimeter is 4 has
diameter \sqrt 2. What is the side of a circle?
It shows that the problem is so ingrained
Greetings,
Dr. Nelson Beebe of TUG suggested I contact the unicode discussion
forums regarding the need to clarify mathematical and physical
notation with a symbol for 2*\pi. This was pointed out in my paper
in The Mathematical Intelligencer v. 23, vol.3 2001 pp. 7-8 Springer-NY
which may be
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Michael Everson wrote:
I think it's cute. But I guess I'd call it tri.
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Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
Thanks, good suggestion! Don Tucker pointed out the stability of a
three-legged stool. It has to be one-syllable, though tri
accident of 3.14... is described in the article, and dates
to the 1700's - the Euler chose to simplify Periphery/Diameter, in their
Greek spellings, \pi \over \delta rather than the competing
Periphery/Radius, or \pi \over \rho
Bob
On Wed, 16 Jan
2002, Rick McGowan wrote:
Robert Palais wrote
of
such an option for simplicity as well. Apparently I was
wrong. Rather than use a new character, using the \TeX macro
is easy enough for most of those in the mathematical community
who use some version of \TeX.
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Barry Caplan wrote:
At 11:33 AM 1/16/2002 -0700, Robert
To the members of the discussion:
I saw Dr. Nelson Beebe today and discovered his intent was that I
bring this to the American Mathematical Society's discussion forum
on Unicode, not the general one. I will be doing so, and apologize
if my inquiry intruded on your work, and at the same time,
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