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by layer8 586 days ago
> Googling for "Math squiggle that looks like a cursive P" is not a very elegant or convenient way of learning new symbol names.

Asking ChatGPT (or the like) is a good solution nowadays though: “The mathematical symbol that resembles a cursive "p" is likely the Weierstrass p, denoted as ℘. […]”

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I asked once and it just gave me “p”. I said “no more fancy like” and it produced the correct result. This is the real power of the model for narrowing search, you can interrogate the results.