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  2. What do teens mean when they say ‘sigma’? - AOL

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    Sigma males are “considered ‘equal’ to Alphas on the hierarchy but live outside of the hierarchy by choice,” reads the website. Urban Dictionary adds that sigma “is what all 10 year olds ...

  3. Sigma - Wikipedia

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    Sigma (/ ˈ s ɪ ɡ m ə / SIG-mə; [1] uppercase Σ, lowercase σ, lowercase in word-final position ς; Ancient Greek: σίγμα) is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals , it has a value of 200.

  4. Standard deviation - Wikipedia

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    A five-sigma level translates to one chance in 3.5 million that a random fluctuation would yield the result. This level of certainty was required in order to assert that a particle consistent with the Higgs boson had been discovered in two independent experiments at CERN , [ 11 ] also leading to the declaration of the first observation of ...

  5. Alpha and beta male - Wikipedia

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    Sigma male is an internet slang term to describe solitary, masculine men. The term gained prominence within Internet culture during the late 2010s and early 2020s, and has inspired numerous memes, graffitis and videos. [32] It is used to denote a male who is equivalent to an alpha male but exists outside the alpha-beta male hierarchy as a "lone ...

  6. Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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    the stack alphabet in the formal definition of a pushdown automaton, or the tape-alphabet in the formal definition of a Turing machine; the Feferman–Schütte ordinal Γ 0 [17] represents: the specific weight of substances; the lower incomplete gamma function; the third angle in a triangle, opposite the side c

  7. σ-algebra - Wikipedia

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    The main use of σ-algebras is in the definition of measures; specifically, the collection of those subsets for which a given measure is defined is necessarily a σ-algebra. This concept is important in mathematical analysis as the foundation for Lebesgue integration , and in probability theory , where it is interpreted as the collection of ...

  8. Uncertainty - Wikipedia

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    In that case, the quoted standard errors are easily converted to 68.3% ("one sigma"), 95.4% ("two sigma"), or 99.7% ("three sigma") confidence intervals. [citation needed] In this context, uncertainty depends on both the accuracy and precision of the measurement instrument. The lower the accuracy and precision of an instrument, the larger the ...

  9. What is 'preppy'? The old slang has a new meaning

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    Arizona special-education math teacher Philip Lindsay, who filmed a viral TikTok video listing 24 slang words he hears in school, asked his middle school students to define preppy in a different ...