What's your favorite greek letter to use in equations?
>>16874433Kind of weird they picked Greek letters. Why didn’t they pick Arabic or Latin or just plain English for fucks sake all those languages contributed much more than an ancient civilization. May as well use hieroglyphics from ancient Egypt if you want to go to the real originators.
lower case lambda
>>16874433I like alpha because it reminds me of my diffy q professor who was from China. He pronounced it arpha. Great guy.
>>16874433lower case epsilon and omegafuck lower case xi though
>>16874436>lower case lambdaThis. Little lambda and little chi are fun to write.Am stats.
>>16874433Digamma obviously
>>16874442My Chinese Calc II prof would say "FACTION!" trying to enunciate as clearly as possible.So I write "fraction".Dude was saying "function" the entire time.
>>16874636>fuck lower case xi thoughlove that squiggly nigga
>>16874434because Plato was really sexy, obviously
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>>16874433Fuck you xi. You’re ugly and stupid and nobody likes you.
There's something so satisfying to me about writing uppercase sigma.
>>16874434Western tradition of rational inquiry into the nature and origin of the material world has a meaningful starting point in the Greek cultural area of the 6th century BC. Read about the pre-socratics.
