Capital pi is to product as capital sigma is to summation.
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Subject: Re: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi
In a message dated 2002-01-19 17:07:34 Pacific Standard Time,
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> In fact Cajori mentions that
> the capital pi Was used at some point for 6.28... so someone had
> the same idea long before I did.
That is a VERY intriguing thought, one that should be especially worthy of
mention to the AMS. I thought capital pi already had an established meaning,
but perhaps that is in physics or some other branch of science rather than
mathematics.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
