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Despite only having a CS degree, I was always especially fond of ξ due to its distinctiveness (and also didn’t have trouble writing or pronouncing it), moreso t
by layer8 2y ago
Despite only having a CS degree, I was always especially fond of ξ due to its distinctiveness (and also didn’t have trouble writing or pronouncing it), moreso than letters like ν or ι, which are too close to v or i/j visually for my taste.
- anyfoo 2y agoI think iota is fine because it's missing the dot that an i has, but nu is terrible, yeah. In fact, in some fonts nu is exactly v: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_(letter) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_(letter) But then a lot of capital greek letters at least are identical to latin letters in those fonts, so I guess you have to choose carefully anyway... and pick the proper font/handwriting if you absolutely have to use nu. (Hopefully you don't.)