Greek Capital Letter Gamma
Part of Greek Letters
On Windows, hold Alt and type 226 on the numeric keypad to insert greek capital letter gamma.
- Alt code
- Alt+226
- HTML entity
- Γ
- Unicode
- U+0393
About this symbol
Capital gamma names the gamma function, Γ(n), which extends the factorial (1 × 2 × 3 and so on) beyond whole numbers. Adrien-Marie Legendre gave it that symbol in the early nineteenth century.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- GREEK CAPITAL LETTER GAMMA
- Also called
- Gamma function
- Type
- Uppercase letter
- Unicode block
- Greek and Coptic
- Unicode group
- Letters
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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