Re: What is the funny-looking "i" in the palette?
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- Subject: [mg6590] Re: [mg6539] What is the funny-looking "i" in the palette?
- From: seanross at worldnet.att.net
- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 02:11:40 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
robpeterson at sprintmail.com wrote: > > Now that I've found the palette, I wonder what some of the symbols in > it mean. Since there is vanishingly small info on the notebook > interface (in 3.0), I spent quite a bit of time looking thru the help > files and the book but found no clues what this funny i is (it has two > vertical bars, not one plus a dot). > > At first, I thought it meant Root[-1] but only capital I works for > that, I tried it. > > Any clues would be appreciated. Try looking on page 1288 of the mathematica book. It is indeed equivalent to I or Root[-1] and can be written with the keyboard shortcut escape ii escape.