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It's just a pi with one leg in the middle. It's pretty easy to read. Also engineers (who don't have very good writing) have been using tau for things like a tim
by Jach 15y ago
It's just a pi with one leg in the middle. It's pretty easy to read. Also engineers (who don't have very good writing) have been using tau for things like a time constant (among other uses) for a long time.
The bad handwriting problem is solved very easily, TAs should complain to the professor to make it a requirement that if you guys can't read it, it's wrong. I've had classes like this, I just use LaTeX.
- DrHankPym 15y agoYeah, I remember using Tau mainly for time constants back in school. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_constant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_constant
- orbitingpluto 15y agoI did a symbolic dynamics course that required the letter xi ad nauseum in lowercase. I still can't write that damn letter.
- Dove 15y agoOne of my math profs in grad school called lower case xi "a scribble". And when he had to write it on the board, it was.
- ars 15y agoPic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xi_uc_lc.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Xi_uc_lc.svg
- Jach 15y agoSeveral fellow students and a couple profs started calling zeta "squiggly diggly". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zeta_uc_lc.svg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Zeta_uc_lc.svg I'm just glad the Hebrew and Phoenician alphabets haven't caught on more than they have already.