Talk:Beta

Pronunciation
Which are the original and modern Greek pronunciations of "beta"? I think this information could be useful ;) Sabbut 15:13, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
 * The modern Greek pronunciation is (IPA or SAMPA)/vi.ta/,.And Koine pronunciation is ... maybe /be:ta/.

Disambig moved around
I've attempted to cleanup the Beta, Beta (letter) pages - by moving the Beta page to the Beta (disambiguation) page - and moving some of the uses of pure &beta; to the Beta (letter) article (i.e. the symbol &beta; means X). I think this is clearer, though I'm sure there could be some improvements. Please make any changes you see fit. Megapixie 02:56, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Now Alpha and Gamma follows the "standard" of Beta. I think it's better now... I've reverted your first edit only catch your attention to those other letters... Good work Megapixie. Regards Loudenvier 03:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

The same as B?
I'm confused...

Is the upper case of this letter not the same as the Latin letter B?... 84.138.242.234 (talk) 20:03, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes. If there are any differences, they are insignificant in written form. Note that Beta is the Greek V though, not B. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 20:06, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * That's not exactly correct to say that beta is the 'Greek V'; unless you mean strictly that in modern Greek it be pronounced like modern English V, which is true. And beta in modern Greek is transcribed as V, for pronunciation's sake. But otherwise beta and V share no relation to one another: unlike beta and B. In Classic Greek beta was pronounced like English B, and Latin B is its descendent; whereas, V is descended from upsilon/ypsilon (along with its one-time variant U, and W, the letter that was made by doubling it; and Y). Firejuggler86 (talk) 01:35, 20 November 2020 (UTC)


 * No. Its encoded differently, even though it often displays the same character. — Llywelyn II   04:12, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

An archaic form of Beta
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/thrace/byzantium/Moushmov_3210.1.jpg (coin of Byzantion, 340 BC)

"BY" for BYZANTION, but "Beta" is different! Böri (talk) 11:14, 11 November 2010 (UTC)


 * See answer at Talk:Greek alphabet. Yes, we could add this variant in this article, along with a couple others. There were lots of weird beta variants in archaic local Greek scripts. Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:32, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

Thermodynamic beta
Thermodynamic beta should be added to this article 72.53.96.54 (talk) 17:17, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Another medieval form
This map (over there→) says the name of Great Britain is Albiōnos, but its glyph for beta is something like ɤ. Byzantine Greek variant? or misspelling with a strange form of gamma? or scribal error? — Llywelyn II   04:12, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, ok. It's ȣ and Alouion was just a variant spelling. — Llywelyn II   05:18, 11 March 2015 (UTC)

Would it be appropriate to add that beta is used to describe a type of male in social hierarchy?
Like alpha/beta/delta/omega males? Socialistguy (talk) 15:22, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

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velocity
Beta is commonly used in problems involving special relativity, as velocity in units of c. Often enough that I would expect it to be mentioned. The main reason I ask is that I wanted to link to it, and there is no place to link to. Gah4 (talk) 11:03, 22 August 2022 (UTC)