As you may have noticed, the symbols (abbreviations) for all currencies have three letters. The first two letters denote the name of the country and third letter stands for the name of that ...

Early chemists had to be fluent in multiple languages and had no trouble flipping back and forth between names like "natrium" and "sodium" (symbol: Na) or "plumbum" and "lead" (symbol: Pb).

The range of acceptable symbols used in domain names is limited for two reasons. Firstly, varying registers of who has the rights to use which domain name need a common system to make sure the ...