Re: Character for e, 2.71828...

From: John H. Jenkins (jenkins@apple.com)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 14:05:11 EDT


On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 10:02 AM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

> Does anybody happen to know the appropriate Unicode character for the
> base of the natural logarithms, e? Paging through the Unicode spec I
> found a number of candidates in various blocks including 0065, 212E, and
> 212F but none of which identified themselves as this number in particular.
>
>

U+0065. Except in rare cases for backwards compatibility with other
standards, Unicode does not include special characters for mathematical or
physical constants.

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