On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Rutger Vos wrote: >> _one_ charachter. But Y, compared to ¥, is one charachter only as well, >> and is even more visually distinctive with most fonts I know of, afaict, >> so is there any good reason to keep the latter as the "official" one?!? > > Do you even need to ask? It's because it *looks cool* :) Does it? Guillemets _do_ look kool, but I don't by the argument for the Yen symbol... Michele -- >Is e+pi a rational or irrational number? Yes, it is. - Robert Israel in sci.math, "Re: A Number Problem"