Non-egalitarian treatment of mathematical operators (was Re: Basic Latin digits, not everything else (was: RE: How the C programming language bridges the man-machine gap)
Kent Karlsson
kent.b.karlsson at bahnhof.se
Wed Apr 20 12:48:49 CDT 2022
> In math, it is common that the symbols vary. For example, in logic, one might use for conjunction 𝑨 ∧ 𝑩 or 𝑨 & 𝑩, or implication
> 𝑨 ⇒ 𝑩, 𝑨 → 𝑩, or 𝑨 ⊃ 𝑩. If defines the logic using a specific set of symbols, it is also valid for other such sets.
That is fine. But…
The symbol ⊃ is ”bidi mirrored”:
2283;SUPERSET OF;Sm;0;ON;;;;;Y;;;;;
and has an entry in BidiMirroring.txt:
2283; 2282 # SUPERSET OF
But neither ⇒ nor → are bidi mirrored, just because they are ”arrows”.
/Kent K
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