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Math Symbol Frequencies
The table of math symbol frequencies in a new book took me down an unexpected path.
It’s obviously modeled on the character and word frequency tables that are pretty common and which form the basis for dissociated press and similar computer diversions. Because boxes are often used to fill in for a missing glyph, I began to wonder if symbols in the table weren’t present in the font used in the book. Watt is also one of the original authors of the MathML spec and a contributor to the Maple computer algebra system.
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