Can someone explain what we are talking about here? Something having to do with Musk's son's name?
Unicode Character βπβ (U+1D54F)
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Re: Unicode Character βπβ (U+1D54F)
#22This character was added to Unicode in 2001, which notably is after Elon acquired x.com
It was added as a part of the Latin (and also Greek) alphabet in various incarnations for mathematical use.
Re: Unicode Character βπβ (U+1D54F)
#23Can someone explain what we are talking about here? Something having to do with Musk's son's name?
Twitter is rebranding to X.
Re: Unicode Character βπβ (U+1D54F)
#24This 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 βquotientβ), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for βfieldβ). This explains why many of the letters in thiβ¦
because elon renamed twitter to "x corp", bought the x.com domain and shoved this character on it.
He (or a company of his) has had the x.com domain for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
Re: Unicode Character βπβ (U+1D54F)
#25This 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 βquotientβ), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for βfieldβ). This explains why many of the letters in thiβ¦
π is used as a symbol for a generic metric space. E.g. if your result is generic over βΒ², βΒ³, etc, you can write π.
Re: Unicode Character βπβ (U+1D54F)
#26Can someone explain what we are talking about here? Something having to do with Musk's son's name?
No it's about the renaming of Twitter.
Re: Unicode Character βπβ (U+1D54F)
#27This 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 βquotientβ), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for βfieldβ). This explains why many of the letters in thiβ¦
because elon renamed twitter to "x corp", bought the x.com domain and shoved this character on it.
He owned x.com decades ago and it was part of paypal's acquisition, then they sold the name back to elon a few years ago
Re: Unicode Character βπβ (U+1D54F)
#28Can someone explain what we are talking about here? Something having to do with Musk's son's name?
Twitter has been rebranded as 'X'. Elon has the domain x.com and I suppose he wants to use it
Re: Unicode Character βπβ (U+1D54F)
#29Re: Unicode Character βπβ (U+1D54F)
#30This 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 βquotientβ), set of quaternions H (named after Hamilton), or an unknown set F (for βfieldβ). This explains why many of the letters in thiβ¦
π is used as a symbol for a generic metric space. E.g. if your result is generic over βΒ², βΒ³, etc, you can write π.
Thanks! I am always a little curious about how these symbols are used. That makes perfect sense to me.