Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F)

Post by izzdrasil » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 1:42 PM UTC

wccrawford wrote: post #140

drcongo wrote: post #105

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You answered your own questions really with " Musk can seem to do no right atm " - for some of us, it's just incredibly funny to watch the hubris of a self-proclaimed genius cause them to fail so often in such a short space of time. A seemingly endless string of stupid decisions because he's surrounded by boot lickers and sycophants with not one of them willing to put their hand up and tell him he's not a genius.

For me it's not funny so much as shocking, and sad. He had a hand, of some sort, in at least a few great things, and it's upsetting to watch it falling apart. I often think of the quote: "You either die a hero, or live to see yourself become a villain." Far too many icons outlive their hero phase, and it's kind of depressing. Edit: Or rather, the hero phase fails to live long enough to outlive the person.

Post by plagiarist » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 1:43 PM UTC

jhoechtl wrote: post #89

dietrichepp wrote: post #10

This is for math. In Latex, you get these symbols with \mathbb{}. They are most commonly used to represent to represent number sets, like the set of all integers Z (from the German), set of all natural numbers N, set of complex numbers C, set of all real numbers R, rationals Q (for “quotient”), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for “field”). This explains why many of the letters in thi…

> I don’t know why people are interested in the X symbol. It's the new symbol for and domain name of the social? network formerly known as twitter.

Post by dsr_ » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 1:45 PM UTC

Izkata wrote: post #123

bhouston wrote: post #95

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Who cares if x.com sponsors it? In fact they should because emojis are so popular on it and Unicode could use the fund. Why should someone try to get this? What is their benefit?

Because it's trendy to hate on Elon.

Post by catiopatio » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 1:49 PM UTC

enriquto wrote: post #148

folkrav wrote: post #142

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Funny. Coming from a non-math background, having only one symbol to deal with feels less confusing than switching around symbols based on the medium it happens to be written on. Did one of the symbols come "first"?

Here you have the whole history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold Summary: boldface came first, in print, and was widely used. Much later, some mathematicians started to write blackboard bold on blackboards (because actual bold would be very untoward to write on a blackboard). Then, the usage was backported to print. I find it ugly, a sort of breaking "suspension of disbelief", I don't know how to explai…

Post by evan_ » Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 1:55 PM UTC

quietbritishjim wrote: post #121

jjgreen wrote: post #114

Interesting comment on the Register (by Jedit): However, it's also exactly identical to Unicode character 1D54F - because that's all it is. And if you examine the full "X" logo in detail, you'll notice that the scratch in the background doesn't reach the X because all the logo creator did was put U+1D54F in a black square and slap it onto the backdrop. It's the epitome of laziness. https://forums.theregister.com/foru…

> you'll notice that the scratch in the background doesn't reach the X What does this mean? I've tried finding various images of the X logo on news sites and twitter.com itself and I don't see anything resembling a "scratch in the background" but maybe I'm just missing something obvious.