My keyboard has no degree symbol to tell you the internal angle of a pentagon is 108°, and no radical sign to show that √9 = 3. Presumably this is to make way for important symbols like ¬, ¦ and ~ that crop up in every other sentence.
Comic Strips
Validate your radio - 22 July 2008
What makes you think the perception filter's going to work on me? - 31 July 2008