On 4 Jan 2016, at 16:54, Asmus Freytag (t) <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/4/2016 7:49 AM, Michael Everson wrote: >> Excellent! >> Looks like a candidate character for encoding. I’m sure I have some examples >> of good font designs for the old character in one of my books. > > Admitting that a Greek letter inherently makes more sense than an "et" as a > variable name, I would still need to understand why "pi" would make a > sensible mnemonic choice for the variable in Gauss' treatise, before being > confident that we've made the correct identification. The more so, as the > use of non-cursive pi for "perihelion" in the same work is clearly mnemonic.
Certainly it does look more like a very common variant of “tau” than “pi” Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
