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I'd ideally prefer to pick one that isn't used in angular things. Because non-English, non-Greek glyphs are somewhat underused for this sort of thing, and beca
by amalcon 16y ago
I'd ideally prefer to pick one that isn't used in angular things. Because non-English, non-Greek glyphs are somewhat underused for this sort of thing, and because of visual similarity to pi, I'd suggest the hebrew Het or Russian л. However, I really have no problem with continuing to use the multi-glyph symbol 2pi.
- samatman 16y agoToo much visual similarity to pi is a recipe for many factor-of-two errors.
- vorg 16y agoWhy a multi-glyph symbol 2π when a single-glyph symbol 2π would be better. By creating a new symbol by joining the bottom-right of the 2 to the topleft of the π, we can make a new one-glyph symbol, perhaps put it next to € in Unicode. And instead of saying two words "Two Pi", we could say it as one word "Twopi", with stress on the first syllable, much like the word "teenager" used to be spoken and written as two words a century ago.
- Groxx 16y agoI like the idea of "Twopi". Looks like it could be pronounced like "Toupee". (yes, it'd be a mispronunciation, but people do that) Do you also favor the almighty interrobang‽
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- eru 16y agoWe pronounce the constant as pee in German anyway. (No confusion with bodily fluids there.) Or we might as well go with dvapee (Russian), or tsveypee (German (zweipi, written so that you can pronounce it the English way and it'll come out ok)). We can go for pronouncing the thingy pipi. (Though would lead to confusion with bodily fluids in German.)
- amalcon 16y agoYou know, I really don't care that much about the 2pi thing, but this is just cool enough that I might be able to get behind it.