Comment on 𝕐: What Comes After 𝕏?

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palordrolap@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Not aware of any specific usages, but maybe they're used as meta-sets. e.g. "consider a set of numbers 𝕏 and a set of numbers 𝕐 ... etc, which can't be done with the defined letters.

Unicode originally only had the double-struck letters for the defined sets β„‚, ℍ, β„•, β„™, β„š, ℝ and β„€, but the full alphabets were later added at higher code-points with "reserved" gaps where the defined seven letters would otherwise appear.

(Complex, Hamiltonian quaternions, Natural, Prime, Quotient (rational), Real and Zahlen, a German word for counting numbers, for anyone wondering. Also, ℍ not getting "β„š" because β„š couldn't have "ℝ" is kind of funny.).

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