From: Gusztáv Jánvári (me@gusztav.janvari.name)
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 13:17:31 CST
Time to say thanks again for your efforts on decoding this symbol. The
ambiguity around the symbol has a positive consequence—I don't need to feel
any more that the years spent with studying Math was absolutely worth
nothing. :)
To keep you informed, this time we have decided to use the translation of
"by measure" as the name of the symbol as it also starts with an "m" and I
think we can use "m over equal" to express that some things are
"experimentally equal" as just we can use "d over equal" to express that an
equality comes from a definition.
Gus
-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
Behalf Of Asmus Freytag (w)
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:56 PM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Fw: Re: [Fwd: Re: Need help in interpreting symbol 225e (measured
by)]
I solicited input on this question from a very knowledgeable source at the
AMS, but as you can read, no final word on this.
A./
-----Forwarded Message-----
>>On 10 Mar 2006, at 13:50, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>
>> 225e
>
>I personally have no idea why 225E has the name 'measured by'
>or of a semantics behind it. It's one of a number of so-called
>mathematical symbols that I have accepted as being already
>so denominated by some earlier tradition I was not familiar
>with; and 'm' does seem to be associated with measured'.
>I'd be interested in use cases myself, as I can't think
>of one now. A symbol once in the fount case will always find
>a use I think, so I'd be more interested in earlier use case.
>
>Philip Chastney's comment about an implicit metric strikes me
>as likely an astute one, but is probably, as he seems to suggest
>himself, just a clever reading or reconstruction from what's
>before us.
>
>All the best,
>
> Patrick
>
>
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