{"id":203,"date":"2006-06-30T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2006-06-30T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T12:05:00","slug":"its-all-geek-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"it&apos;s all geek to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a conversation with <lj user=\"greatbiggary\"> recently I got to thinking: what do all the letters of the Greek alphabet represent? What is their canonical meaning to me? Here&apos;s the result of my thoughts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&alpha; (alpha) : A quite buggy version of software.\n<li>&beta; (beta) : A prerelease (but not so buggy) version of software.\n<li>&gamma; (gamma) : Something you correct when it&apos;s too dark.\n<li>&delta; (delta) : A small change in something.\n<li>&epsilon; (epsilon) : A very (very) small quantity.\n<li>&zeta; (zeta) : No meaning to me: it&apos;s up for grabs! But it&apos;s one of the squiggles, so hard to disambiguate.\n<li>&#038;eta: (eta) : Nowt here either. Too easy to confuse with n.\n<li>&theta; (theta) : Any old angle. Or temperature. A stalwart friend.\n<li>&iota; (iota) : Too boring to mean anything technical.\n<li>&kappa; (kappa) : Apart from it being some sort of Japanese water-creature, I don&apos;t know of anything&#8230;\n<li>&lambda; (lambda) : An unnamed function. Oh and a half-life.\n<li>&mu; (mu) : Micro-prefix.\n<li>&nu; (nu) : Nowt. Too easy to confuse with v.\n<li>&xi; (xi) : Another squiggly. No use.\n<li>&omicron; (omicron) : Seems like I should use it. So that when people ask me what &#8220;o&#8221; is, I can say &#8220;It&apos;s <i>omicron<\/i>, actually.&#8221;\n<li>&pi; (pi) : Ratio of a circle&apos;s circumference to its diameter.\n<li>&rho; (rho) : Density.\n<li>&sigma; (sigma) : Standard deviation. Needs to be put to another use because this one&apos;s fun to write, with its little tail.\n<li>&tau; (tau) : Torque.\n<li>&upsilon; (upsilon) : Another useless letter.\n<li>&phi; (phi) : &theta;&apos;s big brother &#8211; the other angle in a spherical coordinate system. Or the golden ratio. This is one of the cooler ones.\n<li>&chi; (chi) : Vaguely aware of some statistics thing called the &chi;-square test. And a bit of a Christian overtone to it. Neither of which endear this letter to me.\n<li>&psi; (psi) : Tries to be as cool as &phi; but falls short. I discard it.\n<li>&omega; (omega) : Angular velocity.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a conversation with recently I got to thinking: what do all the letters of the Greek alphabet represent? What is their canonical meaning to me? Here&apos;s the result of my thoughts. &alpha; (alpha) : A quite buggy version of software. &beta; (beta) : A prerelease (but not so buggy)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}