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Dove on March 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: No, really, pi is wrong: The Tau Manifesto

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 on March 14, 2012 | [–]

Pic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xi_uc_lc.svg

Jach on March 15, 2012 | [–]

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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