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[owl]

I have just discovered that there is a word for the infinity symbol, &infin : lemniscate

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[yubsie]

Is that like lemnas bread? :p

[owl]

Nevererdovit :)

[leia-naberrie.livejournal.com]

*stares* er... Secondary school maths? I thought everyone knew that.

[owl]

Nope, nor university maths either.

[leia-naberrie.livejournal.com]

Wow. So what did you use for limits?

e.g.

What is the limit of X2 as x tends to infinity?

[owl]

Oh! I think we've got our wires crossed: we used the symbol all the time, we just never called it a lemniscate.

[leia-naberrie.livejournal.com]

A_ha!