RE: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi

From: Sampo Syreeni (decoy@iki.fi)
Date: Tue Jan 22 2002 - 09:00:11 EST

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On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Murray Sargent wrote:

>Capital pi is to product as capital sigma is to summation.

But if I'm not mistaken, Unicode already has a separate character for
n-ary products and summation (U+220F, U+2211), distinct from the capital
Greek letters *and* the variant forms in the mathematical alphanumeric
block. If capital pi is the way to go, why not use U+1D6F1 MATHEMATICAL
ITALIC CAPITAL PI or U+1D72B MATHEMATICAL BOLD ITALIC CAPITAL PI, for
instance?

Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111
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openpgp: 050985C2/025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

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