And lo On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:20:11 +0100, Mike Raiford  
<"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:

> So, I'm not formally trained in mathematics at all. Normally, I can  
> muddle through. I kept seeing the following mysterious symbol: Π
>
> Err... what on earth?

Yeah I recall Sigma a lot in high school maths but I don't recall every  
seeing Pi in this context. I don't recall when I discovered it, but it was  
definitely after leaving education.

> Then, today, I was poking around with MathML and saw the symbol on a  
> sample page, right-clicked and looked at the mark-up.

Or you could have, you know, asked here :-)

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