From: Paul B Levy <P.B.Levy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: \phi for the golden ratio?
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 09:30:05 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406022245090.17661-100000@acws-0092.cs.bham.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405301906020.13047-100000@prism.math.mcgill.ca>
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> So far, I have only met three real or complex numbers with universally
> accepted one-letter symbols: \pi, e, i. Have I missed something?
What about "r" (pronounced "rev"), denoting 2*pi, in the archaic but still
widely understood phrase "33 rpm record"?
A shame the Greeks chose pi rather than rev, for I think the latter is
more fundamental.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-06 12:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-29 23:08 Oswald Wyler
2004-05-30 23:23 ` Robert Seely
2004-06-06 12:30 ` Paul B Levy [this message]
2004-06-01 7:21 Nils Andersen
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