Infinity comes from the Latin word infinitas meaning unboundedness.
Though the infinity symbol's origins are unknown, a man by the name of John Wallis who is credited with introducing the symbol in writing in 1655 in De sectionibus conicis.
The infinity symbol may come from the Roman numeral 1000 which was taken from the Etruscuns numeral for 1000, which sometimes means many and happens to look like this, CIƆ. Another possibility is that it may have been derived from the last letter of the Greek alphabet, omega, ω.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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