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

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    Greek letters are used in mathematics, science, engineering, and other areas where mathematical notation is used as symbols for constants, special functions, and also conventionally for variables representing certain quantities. In these contexts, the capital letters and the small letters represent distinct and unrelated entities.

  3. Chi (letter) - Wikipedia

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    Chi or X is often used to abbreviate the name Christ, as in the holiday Christmas . When fused within a single typeface with the Greek letter rho , it is called the Chi Rho and used to represent the person of Jesus Christ.

  4. 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. In general mathematics, uppercase Σ is used as an operator for summation.

  5. Standard deviation - Wikipedia

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    The mean and the standard deviation of a set of data are descriptive statistics usually reported together. In a certain sense, the standard deviation is a "natural" measure of statistical dispersion if the center of the data is measured about the mean. This is because the standard deviation from the mean is smaller than from any other point.

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

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    As reported by British GQ, the wordsigma” was born from the misogynistic “manosphere.” What does ‘sigmamean? Philip Lindsay , a special education math teacher in Payson, Arizona ...

  7. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    3. Between two groups, may mean that the first one is a proper subgroup of the second one. > (greater-than sign) 1. Strict inequality between two numbers; means and is read as "greater than". 2. Commonly used for denoting any strict order. 3. Between two groups, may mean that the second one is a proper subgroup of the first one. ≤ 1.

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

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    As reported by British GQ, the wordsigma” was born from the misogynistic “manosphere.” What does ‘sigmamean? Philip Lindsay , a special education math teacher in Payson, Arizona ...

  9. Stigma (ligature) - Wikipedia

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    The name, stigma (στίγμα), is originally a common Greek noun meaning "a mark, dot, puncture", or generally "a sign", from the verb στίζω ("[I] puncture"); [1] the related but distinct word stigme (στιγμή) is the classical and post-classical word for "geometric point; punctuation mark". [2]