Ioannis
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Re: Greek Alphebet
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Nov 7, 2003 2:34 PM
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ÃÂà"G. A. Edgar" <ydp4fdr6202@sneakemail.com> ÃÂÃÂÃÂóÃÂÃÂÃÂñÃÂÃÂÃÂõ ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÿ ÃÂüÃÂîÃÂýÃÂÃÂ
ÃÂüÃÂñ news://071120031424114696%ydp4fdr6202@sneakemail.com... [snip] > Here is a web page on Greek letters. > > > > Maybe you mean the old-fashioned cursive pi (see the lower right), > nowadays still used in astronomy for "perihelion".
Hmmm, so that explains _why_ some students in my elementary school and high school were writing this symbol instead of pi on their theses.
Apparently it was used interchangeably with the regular pi. I have no idea why.
> -- > G. A. Edgar http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/ -- Ioannis Galidakis http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/jgal/ ------------------------------------------ Eventually, _everything_ is understandable
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