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orbitingpluto
on March 14, 2012
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No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto
I did a symbolic dynamics course that required the letter xi ad nauseum in lowercase. I
still
can't write that damn letter.
Dove
on March 14, 2012
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One of my math profs in grad school called lower case xi "a scribble". And when he had to write it on the board, it was.
ars
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xi_uc_lc.svg
Jach
on March 15, 2012
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Several fellow students and a couple profs started calling zeta "squiggly diggly".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zeta_uc_lc.svg
I'm just glad the Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets haven't caught on more than they have already.
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