Re: Pronunciation of mathematical symbols

stork wrote:

For example, we all know that PI has its little post and lintel symbol,
but, if I examine one of the ways to compute a gamma function, I can
see that there is a large PI like symbol. Is that pronounced PI?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function


You would pronounce that as, "the product for n = 1 to infinity." The charcter itself is a capital pi. (Cf. sum/sigma.)

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