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From: Markus E Leypold
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"Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com> writes:

> Markus E Leypold wrote:
>
>> 
>> Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:03 +0100, Markus E Leypold wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, 'PI' as greek letter in programs might be nice. But is h-bar
>>>> (Plack constant) somewhere in Unicode? :-)
>>>
>>> Sure,
>>> U+210F PLANCK CONSTANT OVER TWO PI
>>> or '?'
>> 
>> So that's the same as PI (a small box). I know you can define some
>> physical constants as 1 by using the right units, but I'd never have
>> expected that you could define h-bar as PI ...
>> 
>> (no, no, I'm joking. But impressing that unicode even has
>> h-bar. Probably they also have everyone of the more "funny" operators
>> of theoretical physics too. Of course that does not help in writing
>> better physics programs, since some of the stuff need special parsing
>> too).
>
> Isn't supposed unicode to have /everything/? Well, or almost. I think they
> rejected to include Klingon.

They did? If that doesn't spell trouble, I don't know ... 

Regards -- Markus