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Re: Omega
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William J. Turner)
Thu Dec 4 09:28:42 1997
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 09:26:57 -0500
Reply-To: "William J. Turner" <wjturner@EOS.NCSU.EDU>
From: "William J. Turner" <wjturner@EOS.NCSU.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Karl Ross Greenley <rop+@CMU.EDU> "Re: Omega" (Dec 4, 0:49)
> > I based that point on the physical representation of the letters and the
> > proximity to the end of the alphabet. If I remember correctly, W is
derived
> > from Omega, even though it isn't in the Roman alphabet. For W, lay the
left
> > and right wings down and make the middle a bulb, and you have Omega.
>
> I think the w shaped version of Omega is the lowercase form of it... I
> know that form is used in Physics to represent angular velocity...
Technically there is no lower or upper case greek. Or there wasn't in ancient
greek. That is actually the script omega.
Or so the texts on ancient greek I have seen say.
