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It’s an uppercase pi; The lowercase one is what we’re all familiar with. What’s interesting is that the actual post has the lowercase one. Is it a bug in HN’s capitalization fixer?

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Maybe it's changed now, but the "π" in the title is unicode U+03C0 [0], which is a lowercase pi. In the font Verdana (the one that I see in the title, but not this comment as I type it[1]), U+03C0 looks like a small capital pi and looks a bit like "n").[2]

[0] https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+03C0

[1] EDIT: once the comment was submitted, the font changed to Verdana.

[2] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/74608/why-...

Ah. You’re right. I didn’t even think to check the actual codepoint. It still looks the same as it did when I commented hours ago, so it must just be my font then.

there are also script-style 'mathematical pi symbol' codepoints π 𝜋 𝛑 𝝅 𝞹 ℼ

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