Talk:Lambda

Breasts?
"Lambda is used as a symbol for separating the two human breasts in Internet chat iconography, specifically as ' ( . λ . ) '" Is this really relevant? Yes, it is a cute use of the symbol in a graphic way, but the same could be said of the symbols used in hundreds of other emoticons. I think that this entry was added more for titillation than edification and its removal should be considered. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.129.180.84 (talk) 03:21, 23 April 2010 (UTC)

Ωω says it's fine. You exist. All else is fail.

Who removed Ωω's symbols from those http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories#Aether_and_quantum_mechanics pages anyway..

You people don't care about reality. You care about getting everything infinitely wrong for fun. Why does your generalization get accepted when you dismiss greater generalizations and also greater clarification, simply because your mind cannot grasp fully what reality is?

Spelling
It's "lamda", not "lamBda"!

However, in modern Greek Pronunciation, it's probably '"labda", not "laMbda"' ...


 * Um, no. Show even one source that uses "lamda". —  SMcCandlish  &#91;talk&#93; &#91;cont&#93;  ‹(-¿-)› 13:28, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

Actually it is spelled "lamtha" with "th" as in "there". Here is one source: http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/lambda-Vs-Lamda.aspx

(one more time)
Wrong is right. The Greeks prefer it without the Beta. Seems that long, long ago English folk just added a B. (Easier to remember as an animal? That's just how we roll!) The unicode mailing list provides some recent history. By way of comparison, Daniel Moth merely suggests lam(th)a is another (more phonetic) way misspell it. There is no going back, but the confusion should be admitted or addressed --- perhaps in the opening paragraph. --dvdrtrgn (talk) 00:05, 28 December 2013 (UTC) Proposed version: When I tried making the change I received this error message from wikipedia: "An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, and it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error."

Tales of Graces
Do we really need a massive paragraph explaining the plot of a video game just because it uses the word lambda? 137.229.82.99 (talk) 11:32, 21 January 2016 (UTC)

NATO use
The article currently says "In NATO military operations, a chevron (a capital lambda symbol) is painted on the vehicles of this military alliance for identification." No reference is cited for this statement.

The sentence is correct except for the parenthetical comment, but only that comment justifies the presence of the sentence in this article. The NATO chevron comes via French heraldry (where chevron means rafter, after the shape), the long history of military rank insignia, and the fact that the chevron shape is easy to apply, remember, and recognize, not via Greek (where the Spartan symbol is simply the initial letter of Lacedaemon).

So I think that line ought to come out entirely. Any objections? If so, please cite a source. 71.197.166.72 (talk) 10:22, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

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