Re: Useful Unicode

JOG wrote:

On Jan 24, 2:22 pm, Bob Badour <bbad...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

JOG wrote:

On Jan 24, 2:22 am, Tegiri Nenashi <TegiriNena...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 22, 12:56 pm, JOG <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So impressed was I by mAsterdam's japanese 'reference' symbols, I
decided to add them to my list of useful unicode. Yes, I am indeed,
that cool, and hereby post said list partly as a google-group test,
and partly (perhaps) to assist in the more mathematical cdt
discussions:

inequality : ≠
inference : →
implication : ⇒
not : ¬
and : ∧
or : ∨
xor : ⊕
xor : ⊻
exists : ∃
for all : ∀
membership : ∈
non-membership : ∉
equivalence : ⇔
empty set : ∅
subset : ⊂
proper subset : ⊆
superset : ⊃
proper superset : ⊇
union : ∪
intersection : ∩
cartesian product : ∏
division : ÷
naturals : ℕ
integers : ℤ
rationals : ℚ
reals : ℝ
complex: ℂ
infinity : ∞
references: レ
references unique: ル
masterdam smiley : ☺

I believe I saw this rendered correctly, but now that I'm trying to
post something on sci.math most of the symbols do not render properly
in GG IE!

yeah, checking in IE , the second xor, non-membership, the empty set,
and the naturals, integers, etc, don't render. Hooray for microsoft
and their continued support of standards. Market Failure 101 anyone....

What makes you think there is a market for standardization?- Hide quoted text -



Well the economic theory (as far as I can recall) is that even in a
fiercely competetive market, so long as there is no market failure,
there exists an underlying impetus to agree on standards (or rather
adopt a single one, from the scariest player). The game-theoretic (!)
motivation is to increase network externalities overall, hence growing
the size of the market as a whole and giving everyone a simlar
percentage slice but of a bigger cake. I think its happened enough, in
web standards, communication standards, etc, that it has some merit,

How do you explain the plethora of competing web and communication standards? Ditto the various rail gauges and domestic line voltages?


but as far as a monopoly is concerned such agreement is anathema.

Why do you think monopoly is required? Have you ever tried to buy accessories for the latest, newest cell phone six months or a year after purchase?


They'd quite sensibly rather tie everyone into their own dedicated
systems using such useful things as er...say... activex, subtly
different css models and silverlight... ;) 'Course its a long time
since I was an economist, and given economic theory is about as
scientific as the fashion industry, the above may all now be viewed as
bobbins.

Market equilibria over the very long term and individual commercial interests over the very short term vary considerably.

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