Re: The benefit of a symbol for 2 pi

From: DougEwell2@cs.com
Date: Sat Jan 19 2002 - 20:19:59 EST


In a message dated 2002-01-19 17:07:34 Pacific Standard Time,
palais@math.utah.edu writes:

> In fact Cajori mentions that
> the capital pi Was used at some point for 6.28... so someone had
> the same idea long before I did.

That is a VERY intriguing thought, one that should be especially worthy of
mention to the AMS. I thought capital pi already had an established meaning,
but perhaps that is in physics or some other branch of science rather than
mathematics.

-Doug Ewell
 Fullerton, California



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