In reply to CJD:
> without wishing to encourage all the mathsy sciency techy folk on here into an argument about such things, please can someone tell me the correct name for the infinity symbol as I appear to have forgotten it.
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> many thanks.
The same name "bolduc" as the greek one meaning "ruban" comes from the Netherlands, the city of 's Hertogenbosh: Bois-le-Duc in french, where was produced this kind of ribbon, used in the sweetshops! un huit couché ...
The lemniscate constant, 1.311028777... results from the square of the GAMMA(1/4) divided by four times the square root of two Pi.
I love the lemniscate curve.