fascinating...I had originally posted using Opera....so I opened up IE for the 1st time in months, and those infinities showed up fine in it! Then I opened Firefox and they were there also...then I opened K-Meleon and saw the same thing...both infinities displayed just as I posted them, even without the closing ;

I'll confess I'm at a loss...is it the browser of the computer that makes the difference? (I know that it is 'sometimes' the display font that makes the difference as to what you see, but the code ought to at least give one the option)

maybe someday they'll standardize things...