Talk:Sigma

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[edit] entry removed

Can't find any info about this anywhere. Dab pages are supposed to link to wikipedia pages that otherwise would get mixed up. No such page exists for this concept. Tedernst | talk 22:12, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Horniness in a book is science?

Uhm,

"a measure of horniness by Lawrence Waterhouse in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon"

Would perhaps be better to make that an entry in new section "Fictional something".

159.51.236.194 13:17, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

You clearly haven't read the book. It's used as the variable in a scientific/mathematical measurement. -- Loweeel 15:19, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Well no, I haven't, so I wouldn't push the matter. Still, that book is classified as "historical fiction", and I'd rather have a more solid source. Is that Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse guy for real or just an invention, and if he's for real, did or didn't he use Sigma for a horniness measure?

In some way the idea of calculating chances of gaining information from an informant based on their horniness *could* make sense so I'm .. still lost.

159.51.236.194 16:36, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, see for yourselves here -- http://newark.pardey.org/book/cryptonomicon/slide63.html . Waterhouse is fictional, but he DOES use Sigma for a horniness measure. -- Loweeel 11:32, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh, come now, fictional science isn't science. In the absence of a verifiable use of the word in that use, let's just either delete it or move it to popular culture. Richard Pinch 18:53, 3 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] MS markup

Is that "may mark a line that is out of place" or should it be "marks a line that may be out of place"? Richard Pinch 19:02, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sigmas in Unicode

Why has Unicode separate code points for uppercase sigma, non-final lowercase sigma, and final lowercase sigma assigned? --84.61.40.91 09:21, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Because, as the first line of the article states, lowercase sigma is written in different forms in non-final and final positions. Richard Pinch 06:17, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sound

Am I missing something, or does this article make no mention whatsoever about the sound(s) produced by sigma in classical and modern Greek? I don't happen to know myself (that happens to be why I came here in the first place), or I'd add it myself. Perhaps someone would be so kind? LordSnow (talk) 21:13, 3 April 2008 (UTC)