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Re: Old Languages

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Thursday, October 4, 2001, 18:25
YHL wrote:
>I would love to learn Ancient Greek, it's just trying to learn Spanish >*and* juggle teaching *and* classes right now is probably all I can handle. > At least the alphabet is half-familiar from years of physics and >math. :-) Stepping-stones are useful...
Speaking of Greek letters in math, I've got math prof who absolutely loves using lowercase xi, most commonly for a certain undetermined value of a variable x. Now, of course, lowercase xi is about the most undrawable character I've ever come across ... ... and don't get me started on minus xi-null prime ... Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>Greek letters in math (was Re: Old Languages)
Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>