• Fonzie!
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    93 months ago

    Because it’s text.

    There are more kind of letters then just our latin alphabet. Cyrillic, aboriginal Canadian and even Chinese and Japanese can be typed by just text for instance (日本語の例え)

    In the same vein, mathematical and other scientific symbols can be typed using just text, and 𝕏 is the symbol that stands in place for arbitrary distance in a formula.

    Basically, it’s just a (mathematical) letter, it can be typed.
    That’s also why their new CEO had difficulties copyrighting it; it’s just a letter, after all!

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      173 months ago

      As a sidenote, looking up what the mathematical symbol actually means gave me this gem

      𝕏 redirects here, for the social media, see Twitter

      Even the Wikipedia community refuses to acknowledge this!

        • Fonzie!
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          22 months ago

          There is no concencus, slightly more people oppose to rename the page, but only sightly.

          I hope they keep it up, to avoid confusion, and to spite their current, dickhead CEO