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On 11.10.11 19:26, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Am 10.10.2011, 18:46 Uhr, schrieb Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>:
> 
>> And my understanding was
>> that the origins of the "sharp s" was that it was a combination of s
>> and z
> 
> Indeed it is the s and z written close together of Fraktur calligraphic:
> 

It is not that easy (in theory):

http://www-nw.uni-regensburg.de/~brh22505/Ligatur/LIGATUR.HTM
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ß
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ß

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur
> 
> These days Fraktur is only used by mathematicians for vector and matrix
> variables.

http://www.faz.net  .-)