The text in my comment changed overnight
By Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
March 16, 2016 6:25am CST
I realise how ridiculous the title to this discussion must seem, but it is actually true.
The specific piece of text that I refer to was not actual letters or words that were typed on my keyboard, but a mathematical symbol that I inserted.
There were a couple of discussions recently about Pi Day, both of which I responded to. In one of my comments I had reason to use the Greek symbol itself. Of course I cannot simply type that into the comment, so I used Microsoft Word.
I typed out the sentence using Unicode to create the symbol, then copied and pasted it to the comment box. This worked fine and the symbol appeared, yet this morning it is just showing small p instead.
I would have understood this if it failed to display the symbol initially, but cannot figure out why it worked temporarily.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
16 Mar 16
It is far too complicated for my simple mind. I need questions that are easy as pie, not pi.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
17 Mar 16
@Asylum Sure, I know all that. I had the required two classes of high school algebra and two classes of geometry. I avoid all the rest until college when I was forced to take another class of algebra. Later, in my MBA program, I had linear programming. Although this looked like algebra on steroids, after it was explained to me, it became simple. I just thought of it as another foreign language. But I still prefer pie over pi.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
17 Mar 16
@ElizabethWallace Treating it as a language is certainly a good approach because primarily it is just that.
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@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
21 Mar 16
Isn't that weird. I don't think it is gremlins or someone in the server room that hates 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820.. so my guess it has something to do with the browser? Is that even possible? Refresh is always different?
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@Bluedoll (16774)
• Canada
21 Mar 16
@Asylum it took me a long time to pencil them out too i drew a circle and the diameter was 1.65 measured around the circle which was really hard and found it to be 5.18 then I divided 5.18 by 1.65 and got 3 then divided again and got 1 and then divided again... lot of work but those Greeks were smart people eh?
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@MarshaMusselman (38469)
• Midland, Michigan
16 Mar 16
Maybe it's a bug that hasn't been squished yet or not even found. I had a comment to a response that I read over a few times and then recently I couldn't find it anywhere. That was a bit weird too and mine was solely in English, no symbols to interpret.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
16 Mar 16
@MarshaMusselman I hope that you do not find it on another discussion, which would prove very confusing.
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@MarshaMusselman (38469)
• Midland, Michigan
16 Mar 16
@Asylum I wasthe member that made that particular comment. Funny thing was, that I read it again a few days later, but when I went last to that post, it wasn't there even though I opened up all the 'more comments' areas. You watch, I'll find it again later or something.
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@marguicha (214294)
• Chile
17 Mar 16
I have ceased trying to understand computer keyboards and computer minds. There are some letters and accents in Spanish that the keyboard has, yet it shows something else. I guess we will end up with a new way of writing words
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@JamesHxstatic (29232)
• Eugene, Oregon
17 Mar 16
That does seem very odd. I don't understand either.
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@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
16 Mar 16
OK, I'll take the pins out of my stuffed keyboard.
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