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Physicists, on the other hand, have come to terms with the fact that they have fewer letters in the English and Greek alphabets than concepts they need to expre
by hugh3 16y ago
Physicists, on the other hand, have come to terms with the fact that they have fewer letters in the English and Greek alphabets than concepts they need to express, and so happily overload i and everything else, hoping to always figure it out from context.
- treo 16y agojust add a hat ^ or squiggle ~ over it, or maybe a point, or something else. I always wondered when the Hebrew alphabet would come up.
- eru 16y agoChinese is the future.
- iwr 16y agoAleph-null?
- hugh3 16y agoIndeed, the use of aleph for transfinite numbers seems to be the only use of the Hebrew alphabet in the sciences that I know. Looking at it, it seems like it would be rather hard to introduce. Any symbol which isn't already a bit too close to a misdrawn version of a Greek or Roman letter (I see three letters which look like misdrawn πs) is pretty hard to draw without practice.
- ars 16y agoScript Hebrew is a lot easier to write. Printed Hebrew is rarely written except by scribes, or typed.
- MaysonL 16y agoI always wondered when the Hebrew alphabet would come up. It already has: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number