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just add a hat ^ or squiggle ~ over it, or maybe a point, or something else. I always wondered when the Hebrew alphabet would come up.


Chinese is the future.


Simplified or traditional?


Yes. We need all the symbols we can get.


We'll need mathematics professors with neater handwriting if you ever hope to be able to distinguish one hanzi from another, though...


Aleph-null?


Indeed, the use of aleph for transfinite numbers seems to be the only use of the Hebrew alphabet in the sciences that I know.

Looking at it, it seems like it would be rather hard to introduce. Any symbol which isn't already a bit too close to a misdrawn version of a Greek or Roman letter (I see three letters which look like misdrawn πs) is pretty hard to draw without practice.


Script Hebrew is a lot easier to write. Printed Hebrew is rarely written except by scribes, or typed.


I always wondered when the Hebrew alphabet would come up.

It already has:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number




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