This small library defines constants, aliases and some originial math functionality for a lot of UTF-8 symbols and combinations thereof.

Warning ⚠: This gem pollutes the Kernel module and extends built-in classes. If you don't like that, don't use it.

There seems to be a problem with RDoc, ri and UTF-8 characters. So install the gem manually without documentation like this

gem install symbols --no-rdoc --no-ri

Here are some examples (See the tests for more examples):

e, i, π, ∞, etc. are all defined.

e**(i*π)+1

Most common fractions are defined, for example:

⅛, ⅕, ¼, ⅓, ½, ¾, ⅚ and ⅞

Short cuts for comparison operators

3.≤ 4
4.≥ 3
5.≠ 10
ϵ.≈ 0.0
π.≉ 3

For any number n between 1 and 10, a log_n_ function is defined, with n as subscript:

log₂(64)
log₁₀(10)

The plus-minus and minus-plus operators are defined. With them, you can calculate e.g. the quadratic formula like this:

(-b.±(√(b.²-4*a*c)))/2*a

For any number n between 0 and 9, there is a function n defined on Numeric, where n is a superscript, that calculates the _n_th power of the caller.

4 == 2.²
16 == 2.⁴

There is a root function:

√(4) == 2

For common roots, constants are defined:

√2
√3
√5

Also, for any number n between 1 and 9, there is a function defined that calculates the _n_th root:

³√(8)
⁴√(16)
⁵√(32)

There are two shortcuts that are defined in Unicode:

∛(8)
∜(16)

Common set operators are defined:

[1,2,3].⊆([1,2,3,4,5])
[1,2,3].⊂([1,2,3,4,5])
[1,2,3,4,5].⊇([1,2,3,4,5])
[1,2,3,4,5].⊃([1,2,3])
[1,2].∪([5,6])
[1,2,5].∩([2,5,6])
[1,2,5].∖([2,5,6])

"Element of" and "Not element of" are defined on Object. They work for classes, containers and anything that responds to "include?":

4.∈([4,5,6])
"foo".∈(["foo", "bar", "baz"])
4.∈(1..10)
5.∉(1..3)
5.0.∉(Fixnum)
3.∉(String)

The following sets are defined (Warning ⚠: These are not just capital letters; they are the double-struck capital letters you know from math lessons):

ℤ - Integers
ℕ - Positive integers
ℚ - Rational numbers
ℝ - Floats
ℂ - Complex
𝔹 - Booleans

Use them in combination with the "Element of" function:

20.∈(ℕ)
-1.∈(ℤ)
Rational(4,5).∈(ℚ)
π.∈(ℝ)
i.∈(ℂ)
false.∈(𝔹)

The lambda function got the short cut λ:

λ { |x| x ** 2 }

Feel free to fork and submit pull requests!