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Back in physics grad school it surprised everyone else that I not only pronounced 'ξ' as "ksi" rather than "cascade" or "squiggle" but, more amazingly, could ac
by exmadscientist 5y ago
Back in physics grad school it surprised everyone else that I not only pronounced 'ξ' as "ksi" rather than "cascade" or "squiggle" but, more amazingly, could actually write it like ξ rather than a squiggle... I still don't really get why that's impressive.
- jacobolus 5y agoThe trick to writing ξ is to notice that it is a fast/sloppy cursive way of writing three parallel horizontal bars (Ξ).
- cozzyd 5y agoWell, Cascade is the name of the particle, not the symbol... (and it would normally be upper-case, no?) for non-physicists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_baryon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_baryon Also, for this reason, surprised it's one of the more rarely used Greek symbols...