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And lo On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:19:32 +0100, andrel <byt### [at] gmail com>
did spake thusly:
> On 24-9-2010 10:50, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>> And lo On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:10:44 +0100, Mike Raiford
>> <"m[raiford]!at"@gmail.com> did spake thusly:
>>
>>> On 9/22/2010 12:02 PM, nemesis wrote:
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>>>>
>>>> neverending revelations... pi *has* uppercase... *head spins*
>>>>
>>>
>>> Greek, like Latin has both upper and lower case.
>>
>> Or to put it another way Greek like Latin has only upper case letters
>> with lower case being only a recent introduction ;-)
>>
> IIRC uppercase because you can chisel them in stone. lower case after
> starting writing regularly on things like papyrus that allows curves
> more easily.
Yup pretty much created by transcripters to speed up copying. Some of the
letters you can see how this developed Xi and Epsilon for example; Nu and
Omega on the other hand...
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Phil Cook
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