Re: Ken's G spot (was Character for e, 2.71828...)

2002-04-08 Thread Tex Texin
OK, we are aligned again. ;-) Kenneth Whistler wrote: > Correct. Just don't assume that that will make Internet searching > any cleaner. :-) You mean XML is not the solution to everything? ;-) -- - Tex TexinDirecto

Re: Ken's G spot (was Character for e, 2.71828...)

2002-04-08 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Tex, > I was with you up to this last comment. > > I can't think of any reason why you *would* want the constant G to match > with values for G in word searches. My point was that if I was looking for "G"'s, hoping to find them on the assumption that they were encoded as "G"'s, i.e. U+0047, alo

Ken's G spot (was Character for e, 2.71828...)

2002-04-08 Thread Tex Texin
Hi Ken, I was with you up to this last comment. I can't think of any reason why you *would* want the constant G to match with values for G in word searches. If I wanted to find the use of gravitational formulae in my database or on the web, narrowing the search for G makes a lot of sense. Try s

Euler's Constant (was: Re: Character for e, 2.71828...)

2002-04-08 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Elliotte Rusty Harold also asked: > While hunting down the candidates I noticed that 0x2107, a Latin > capital letter open E, is named the "EULER CONSTANT". However a quick > Google search seems to indicate that the Euler constant is > 0.577215... generated from a different series and is norma

Re: Character for e, 2.71828...

2002-04-08 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Elliotte Rusty Harold asked: > > Does anybody happen to know the appropriate > > Unicode character for the > > base of the natural logarithms, e? Various people answered: U+0065. Stefan responded: > Actually, this should be an italic 'e'. Here is a complete answer. As John Jenkins pointed

Re: Character for e, 2.71828...

2002-04-07 Thread Stefan Persson
--- "John H. Jenkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > > On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 10:02 AM, Elliotte > Rusty Harold wrote: > > > Does anybody happen to know the appropriate > Unicode character for the > > base of the natural logarithms, e? Paging through > the Unicode spec I > > found a numbe

Re: Character for e, 2.71828...

2002-04-07 Thread Mark Davis
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 09:02 Subject: Character for e, 2.71828... > Does anybody happen to know the appropriate Unicode character for the > base of the natural logarithms, e? Paging through the Unicode spec I > found a number of candidates in various bl

Re: Character for e, 2.71828...

2002-04-07 Thread John H. Jenkins
On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 10:02 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > Does anybody happen to know the appropriate Unicode character for the > base of the natural logarithms, e? Paging through the Unicode spec I > found a number of candidates in various blocks including 0065, 212E, and > 212F

Re: Character for e, 2.71828...

2002-04-07 Thread Doug Ewell
Elliotte Rusty Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody happen to know the appropriate Unicode character for > the base of the natural logarithms, e? Paging through the Unicode > spec I found a number of candidates in various blocks including > 0065, 212E, and 212F but none of which ident

Character for e, 2.71828...

2002-04-07 Thread Elliotte Rusty Harold
Does anybody happen to know the appropriate Unicode character for the base of the natural logarithms, e? Paging through the Unicode spec I found a number of candidates in various blocks including 0065, 212E, and 212F but none of which identified themselves as this number in particular. While