Who also could forget the infamous sixth root symbol which came shortly thereafterpic.twitter.com/lIXvGprv1A
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Who also could forget the infamous sixth root symbol which came shortly thereafterpic.twitter.com/lIXvGprv1A
Napier based it on the Loch Ness monster.
This is but one mathematical symbol lost to history. Others include
the symbol for “stop calculating, start eating” and
“figure this one out, Mr. Genius.”
Is it cube because it has three peaks? I dread to think what the symbol for, say, the 15th or 115th root looked like ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^/
Fortunately that freed it up for use as the cartographic symbol for Nessie.
Though that symbol is fun to draw, it wouldint be fun drawing it many times
.My poor handwriting thanks you late french mathematicians.
If you turn of pi/2 on counterclockwise you see a ξ the most infamous letter in the Greek alphabet for the physicists #physics
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