On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:15:22 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> I could go on... GIYF.

<checks that gravity is still working>

Yep, gravity's still on. ;-)

Jim

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Mike Raiford escreveu:
> On 9/22/2010 12:02 PM, nemesis wrote:
> 
>>
>> neverending revelations... pi *has* uppercase... *head spins*
>>
> 
> Greek, like Latin has both upper and lower case.

I'm used to Scheme, you case-sensitive clod!

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On 23/09/2010 12:59 PM, Invisible wrote:
> Yes - but you must be careful that it's spelt the word you actually
> want. (!)
>

True


> Well, whatever.

Hmm!

> In the case of knowing the Greek alphabet, this is
> trivially searchable. Indeed, you just need to type "Greek alphabet"
> into Wikipedia...

Or just remember it.

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	Stephen

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And lo On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:15:45 +0100, Mike Raiford  
<"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:

> On 9/23/2010 6:59 AM, Invisible wrote:
>
>
>> Well, whatever. In the case of knowing the Greek alphabet, this is
>> trivially searchable. Indeed, you just need to type "Greek alphabet"
>> into Wikipedia...
>
> That is, of course, if you know the character you're looking at belongs  
> to the Greek alphabet. Otherwise, googling is futile.
>
> Though, I guess since it's a mathematical symbol chances are, it's Greek.

Although if you know its a mathematical symbol you can Google that and get  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols as the first  
return and just scroll down that until you see the same one ;-)

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And lo On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:10:44 +0100, Mike Raiford  
<"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:

> On 9/22/2010 12:02 PM, nemesis wrote:
>
>>
>> neverending revelations... pi *has* uppercase... *head spins*
>>
>
> Greek, like Latin has both upper and lower case.

Or to put it another way Greek like Latin has only upper case letters with  
lower case being only a recent introduction ;-)

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Phil Cook

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On 24/09/2010 09:44 AM, Phil Cook v2 wrote:

> Although if you know its a mathematical symbol you can Google that and
> get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_mathematical_symbols as the
> first return and just scroll down that until you see the same one ;-)

And, like it says at the very top, "this list is incomplete". ;-)

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On 9/23/2010 7:26 AM, Invisible wrote:

> Good luck looking up Aleph and Beth. ;-)

Hebrew... I learned about ‬‭‭א‬‭‭‪‪₀ from the commentary on
Futurama of 
all things.

(Apologies if that doesn't show properly ... Some fonts may not contain 
the proper glyphs, and I had a hell of a time with the whole RTL thing 
and getting the proper control code in there to revert from RTL to LTR.

Hebrew characters inline can be a bit bothersome ;)
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~Mike

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On 24/09/2010 12:56 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:

> Hebrew characters inline can be a bit bothersome ;)

You think that's bad? You try doing *arithmetic* with transfinite 
cardinal numbers! :-P

Almost any function of infinity IS ALSO infinity! >_<

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On 9/23/2010 12:50 PM, nemesis wrote:
> Mike Raiford escreveu:
>> On 9/22/2010 12:02 PM, nemesis wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> neverending revelations... pi *has* uppercase... *head spins*
>>>
>>
>> Greek, like Latin has both upper and lower case.
>
> I'm used to Scheme, you case-sensitive clod!
>

Case sensitivity gives me twice as many characters available for 
variable names!

;)

As a fun aside... apparently C# will accept any 
non-number/non-punctuator as a valid variable name. This is valid C# 
code and will compile and execute (and give completely wrong results):

         private static double Γ(double z)
         {
             // in reality this would actually return the result of the 
gamma function...
             return z;
         }

         static void Main(string[] args)
         {
             Console.WriteLine("The value of the gamma function is: " + 
Γ(1));
             Console.ReadKey();
         }

A good way to piss off your co-workers, for sure.. XD


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On 9/24/2010 7:24 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 24/09/2010 12:56 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:
>
>> Hebrew characters inline can be a bit bothersome ;)
>
> You think that's bad? You try doing *arithmetic* with transfinite
> cardinal numbers! :-P
>
> Almost any function of infinity IS ALSO infinity! >_<

I think I'll hold off on that one for a little while. ;)

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~Mike

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