See "Unicode Myths" on http://www.macchiato.com, slide #23.
Mark
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Γνῶθι σαυτόν — Θαλῆς
[For transliteration, see http://oss.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/icu/tr]
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 09:02
Subject: Character for e, 2.71828...
> 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.
>
> While hunting down the candidates I noticed that 0x2107, a Latin
> capital letter open E, is named the "EULER CONSTANT". However a
quick
> Google search seems to indicate that the Euler constant is
> 0.577215... generated from a different series and is normally
> represented with a lower case gamma, not an e of any kind. Is this a
> mistake in the Unicode data?
> --
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