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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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