Re: Pi Day Exercise

In rec.arts.sf.science message <1205798948.260289@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:09:08, Michael Ash <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted:
Dr J R Stockton <jrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In rec.arts.sf.science message <1205718136.64961@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:42:16, Michael Ash <mike@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted:

I pasted the single character pi, from Character Map (U+03C0 : Greek
Small Letter Pi) into the MS IE 6 Address Bar, and got 3750000 results.

Typing "pi" requires two button presses. I'd wager that your sequence
requires several times more than that.

No button presses; all done by mouse. Easy if one has a pi handy.

What kind of button do you have on your mouse which doesn't require you to
press it?

Because you wrote "typing", I was considering you to be referring to key
presses; mouse buttons are much easier to use because, once the hand is
on the mouse, aiming at the button is trivial.

Such arguments apart, it *is* worth noting that useful input to search
engines is not limited to the ASCII character set, nor to languages that
one can read.

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