What's your favourite greek letter

[glass minnow]

Just want to know (the reason needs to be mathematic, obviously)

[golden viper]

Hmm. Tough to say. Gamma is the Lorentz factor, which is cool.

[glass minnow]

Mines phi, because of the relations it has to geometry and its perfect ratio (the golden ratio). Also because it is directly connected to Fibonacci.

FIBONACCI JUST REACTED TO ME?!

[golden viper]

Meh, phi's overrated.

The Lorentz factor describes time dilation and length contraction in special relativity, and it's derived from the Pythagorean theorem.

[soft zinc]

Capital Xi is nice

It looks robust, girthy and square.

and it's made of three pieces

[warm vigil]

Hm...Hard to say. Probably ν and ξ, since they are widely used in chemical thermodynamics as reaction coefficients and extent of the reaction, respectively.

[tranquil ore]

$\tau$ because who wants to use $2\pi$?

[south notch]

Kocher

[tranquil ore]

[south notch]

Kocher

[cosmic notch]

$\gamma$ because I like pasta

[south notch]

Rotor the motor

[glass minnow]

What's your favourite greek letter

[soft zinc]

Bro why is this crank

This server is cooked

[glass minnow]

idk

[frosty atlas]

Who even labeled this as crank

I'd actually use this platform to complain that we should use π to be twice its current value, and τ to be half

Because τ has one leg and π has two

[soft zinc]

No clue

[tranquil ore]

TYPA SAME BRAINCELL

[ripe abyss]

How has no one said lambda

Shake my head

Lambda calculus my beloved

[warm vigil]

My first thought would be wavelength, linear density or molar conductivity 😅

[ripe abyss]

Many more uses of lambda

[golden viper]

Tau occurs later in the Greek alphabet than pi.

Lambda complex.

[cedar meteor]

def sigma bc i'm a sigma

[warm vigil]

This you?

[glass minnow]

me bc i didnt know what could i label this

[warm vigil]

Oh, that tag is specifically for crank posts. Yours isn't one!

[glass minnow]

ik

but idk

now, it isnt crank

[warm vigil]

Alright, nice! The staff members were thinking someone put it there accidentally or maliciously, so good to know it was just an accident 😄

[frosty atlas]

We were on a witch hunt rofl

[glass minnow]

yeah

sorry

[warm vigil]

No worries!

[tranquil ore]

Yeah @frosty atlas can we restrict adding that tag to staff members

[frosty atlas]

unforunately not

i mean, we can do it in wacky ways

but not in a convenient way

[left flax]

The lambda, because of lambda calculus

[velvet stratus]

I like either xi, or zeta, they look good, psi is definitely another preferred choice

Phi is also pretty good, its like the most used by me

[warm vigil]

Oh, what do you use it for?

[velvet stratus]

After α and β

[velvet stratus]

I just use them for angles

[warm vigil]

Ah, I see. Yeah, fair enough.

[velvet stratus]

And for fun sometimes, i let some numbers be phi, for substitution

[warm vigil]

Electric potential, too.

[velvet stratus]

I mean phi is pretty easy to draw

[warm vigil]

Or golden ratio.

[velvet stratus]

Just draw a lil circle and just a line across, simplest one

[velvet stratus]

I like the golden ratio a lot,

But ofc my fav will always be pi 🙂

[south notch]

Just ASR

[calm roost]

d, y, z, u

[lusty cloud]

my fav is Σ

[warm vigil]

In what context - sum, type of molecular orbital or something else? Or just aesthetically?

[lusty cloud]

everything

[warm vigil]

Oh? What other contexts?

[cosmic notch]

Sigma can be seen in measure theory a lot (to represent sigma algebras for example) and a lot in probability theory (the covariance matrice of a L^2 random vector is noted Sigma usually)

I used it in optics I think when I did some

But I may have misremembered

[warm vigil]

Oh, I see. I usually represented sigma-algebra by ℱ, I think.

[cosmic notch]

I usually represent them $\mathcal{E}$ or $\mathcal{A}$ depending on my mood

[south notch]

Rotor the motor

[warm vigil]

Hm, ok.

[glass minnow]

fun thing that happened to me was that i was making a presentation about the gauss bell and i used the greek letter sigma to represent a variable. The whole class laughed when I said "sigma", nowadays people do not take serious math

[warm vigil]

Standard deviation, I assume, as usual?

[tranquil ore]

No it's just because of the gen alpha memes

[glass minnow]

yeah, my clasmates are brainrotted

[pure otter]

xi is literally the worst letter in both uppercase and lowercase this is an unacceptable take

[soft zinc]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1107622880168116247/1135533413365989407/giphy.gif

[pure otter]

anyway, omega?? obviously

[soft zinc]

this is so sexy

you're wrong

this? yuck

a head and tits

[pure otter]

maybe sigma cause i like drawing the lowercase, but actually now that i say that it definitely loses points for having two lowercase forms

[pure otter]

ok but try writing this

[soft zinc]

one only appears at the end though

[pure otter]

ξ

[pure otter]

yeah which is stupid stop doing that

[soft zinc]

no

[pure otter]

from a purely mathematical perspective i guess you never see it, but from a script design perspective it still sucks

man delta's pretty sexy too tho icl

uppercase gamma looks unstable so i cant rate it best, despite how fun it is to draw lowercase

psi just looks badass, it feels so powerful

not quite as much as omega but close

[glass minnow]

lowercase xi is difficult to write (took me 11 times to do it correctly)

[soft zinc]

Sorry, but that's a you issue

[solar mountain]

Delta ofcourse

[scarlet plank]

Theta because it has been with me for so long

From basic trignometry to inverse kinematics, it has endured everything

[celest nova]

$\epsilon$ and $\lambda$, the former because it reminds me of the the empty sets in formal languages and the later we use it in linear algebra for eigenvectors and eigen values

[south notch]

Galileo

[calm roost]

can this bot say hi perchance

[calm roost]

x1

[golden viper]

$Hi.$

[south notch]

Techie Literate

[calm roost]

$x1.$

[south notch]

chicken

[calm roost]

$x+5=7$

[south notch]

chicken

[soft zinc]

$$\frac{a}{b}$$

[south notch]

108

[soft zinc]

$\sum_{i=1}^{n}i$ = $\frac{n(n+1)}{2}$

$\left(Big bracket\right)$

[south notch]

108

108

[jaunty monolith]

Omega has the coolest name

[solar mountain]

yea what about alpha

[neat dew]

omega sounds like a plastic jar of vitamin pills

[warm vigil]

Well, there are supplements with (ω - 3)-acid esters. Maybe that's what it reminds you of?

[rancid yew]

π, no explanation needed

[warm vigil]

I do want an explanation of why you didn't choose the letter that's in your nickname, I guess 😅

[rancid yew]

Oh. I thought this was a math server exclusively.

The way I draw people are circles with arms and legs. The letter O is a circle, and because I want to sound cool, Omicron looks like a circle as well. And for the same reason, (to sound cool) I used a K instead of a C.

I prefer Pi because this being a mathematical server and all, and Omicron probably doesn't have much to do with math.

Here's some examples of those people

[warm vigil]

Ohh, I see. Cool!

[rancid yew]

So yeah my favorite is Omicron, but this being a math server, I thought people would understand Pi without the necessity of going into detail. I guess an explanation was needed. 🤣

[warm vigil]

Well, I'm not a math student, so I just picked the ones I like and use relatively often.

[rancid yew]

How aren't you a math student

[warm vigil]

Not sure how I'm supposed to answer that 😅

[rancid yew]

It's a long story?

[warm vigil]

I was in chemistry during bachelor's, and now I'm in master's in chemical technology.

I like chemistry, so I'm a chemistry student.

[warm vigil]

Not really. I just like both chemistry and math, but chemistry more.

[rancid yew]

"There isn't always an explanation for everything."

-Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)

[warm vigil]

Yeah, kinda like that.

[rancid yew]

Speaking of which I have an English project over that

[warm vigil]

Or it just isn't very deep. I just wento into a discipline I like, didn't think much 😄

[true kite]

whats this all about? greek letters? mine is obviously the summation symbol lol. coz im a sigma

[true kite]

Nah no way bro. seriously? people would kill to be smart like ya

[kindred berry]

Bro will make chemical war weapons during WW3 and earn millions

[crystal relic]

sigma

[wicked knoll]

Capital Sigma / Pie because I use them to make large equations smaller lol

[quaint violet]

will i get prosecuted if i say pi

i like old reliable

[charred harbor]

Psi is obviously the best

It feels so nice to write

[soft zinc]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1107622880168116247/1135533413365989407/giphy.gif?ex=68bb7126&is=68ba1fa6&hm=aabddd936b41d7daec09032691220a23b5325c29f3e7eb5bc6e7de40edfb7000&

[charred harbor]

Idk if u cant do two simple lines u might have issues

Or you just have bad taste

[novel moss]

π is definitely the best

plus it's literally my nickname🙂

[warm vigil]

Your nickname is TT, not Π, though.

[novel moss]

I was named after π

that's the best way u can write π using the latin alphabet

[warm vigil]

Oh. Well, why not use the capital greek letter?

[novel moss]

the capital version but written the product operator way

not Π

[warm vigil]

Hm...

I just know that's how the capital pi is written.

[soft zinc]

Isn't that the capital one, but stylised?

[warm vigil]

Oh, in a serif font. I see.

[barren thorn]

Small xi is just epsilon with personality change my mind

It's just a fancy epsilon and I love it

On the other hand though, justice for omicron

[warm vigil]

Well, omicron is pretty much the same thing as latin o and cyrillic о.

The whole point of using greek letters is to have more different symbols.

[soft zinc]

it's like how 14 y/os write an i with a heart instead of the tittle

[barren thorn]

My whole life I didn't know it had a name lol. Remind me to use that in as many situations as possible from now on.