Darren New wrote:

> I asked an exchange professor from Greece once, and he said they use the 
> same capital-sigma notation for summation and delta-for-change and such 
> that we use in America, except all their variables are also greek 
> letters. *That* must suck. :-)

Heh. Mathematics, not content with featuring a zoo of custom symbols 
ranging from "+" and "/" right up to those weird curly arrows, *also* 
uses letters from at least the Latin, Greek and Hebrew alphabets. All at 
once!

Sqrt(-1) = i   [So that's Latin.]
Exp(1) = e     [Latin again - except when people use Epsilon instead...]
Asin(1) = pi   [Definitely Greek.]
|Z| = Alpha0   [So Hebrew then - with Arabic subscripts just for good 
measure.]

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