Re: Irrational numeric values in TUS

2010-10-12 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Asmus, > >> I'm curious if any thought was given to this, and what code points I'm > >> missing in my analysis. > > U+1D452 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL E (or merely U+0065 LATIN > > SMALL LETTER E), also used for Euler's number. See also U+2147. > > Now you are confusing Euler's constant - also dep

Re: Irrational numeric values in TUS

2010-10-12 Thread Asmus Freytag
Ken, some comments, and a few suggestions near the end. On 10/12/2010 4:56 PM, Kenneth Whistler wrote: Karl Williamson asked: The Unicode standard only gives numeric values to rational numbers. Is the reason for this merely because of the difficulty of representing irrational ones? No. Pr

Re: Irrational numeric values in TUS

2010-10-12 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Karl Williamson asked: > The Unicode standard only gives numeric values to rational numbers. Is > the reason for this merely because of the difficulty of representing > irrational ones? No. Primarily it is because the Unicode Standard is a *character* encoding standard, and not a standard for

Irrational numeric values in TUS

2010-10-12 Thread karl williamson
The Unicode standard only gives numeric values to rational numbers. Is the reason for this merely because of the difficulty of representing irrational ones? In looking through the list of code points, I actually found only one case where a character totally unambiguously refers to a particula