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gobdovantoday at 3:48 PM1 replyview on HN

Yeah, they should mark the Greek alphabet as a mandatory prerequisite for college math. It had an unreasonable effect on how quickly I was processing notation-heavy math after learning some Greek for going on a trip over there.


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nephihahatoday at 4:33 PM

As I say above, the issue is that modern Greek pronounces some letters very differently. We use the classical pronunciation in maths etc.

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