# Derivations of Pi not related to circles?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derivations-of-pi-not-related-to-circles/128932>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [September 21, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derivations-of-pi-not-related-to-circles/128932 "2002-09-21T04:01:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derivations-of-pi-not-related-to-circles/128932/21 "2002-09-24T18:18:30Z")

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Every version of Netscape I’ve ever used supports the symbol font just fine. In fact, I see no reason why any browser would have any more trouble with symbol than with any other font.

Meanwhile, Netscape 4.something which I’m currently using does _not_ recognize the escape sequence.

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**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derivations-of-pi-not-related-to-circles/128932/22 "2002-09-24T19:38:25Z")

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> _bibliophage wrote:_  
> Well, I use Opera 6.0 and it looks like the Greek letter to me.

I’ve got Opera 6.05, but mine didn’t display it as a pi in earlier versions either. I’ve seen the SDMB’s pi character displayed in Opera as a funny-looking “p” in versions 5 and 6, under Win95, WinNT, Win2K, and WinXP.

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**Author:** ![Urban\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Urban\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urban_Ranger)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/derivations-of-pi-not-related-to-circles/128932/23 "2002-10-04T16:36:34Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Achernar \*  
> Netscape and Mozilla do not render the Symbol font; all others that I know of do. Netscape and Mozilla do, however, support the escape sequences, so π should show up correctly. Let’s see…
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> π

It looks like a square without the bottom side in Moz 1.0

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