Re:Rare Greek Variables
by captainmuon on Sunday November 28, 2021 @03:00AM
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We had one prof who wrote these as ς with one, two, or even three squiggles below. I never figured out what letters they were supposed to be (zeta, sigma, xi?), but read them as something translating to "zig-zag".
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ς and ζ look similar to their handwritten Roman equivalents.
ς is end sigma, the letter σ (S) when written at the end of the word.
ζ is zi (Z), it's not unusual to write a lower case Roman z with a similar tail. My mum was taught to do this, which confused me when I was learning to read.
ξ is xi (X).