{"id":404,"date":"2006-03-28T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T04:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/normal-freehand\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T22:23:26","slug":"normal-freehand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/normal-freehand\/","title":{"rendered":"Normal freehand"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking to my mentor at work a couple of weeks ago and was telling him about a some of the statistics stuff I was doing for the Performance Regression Prevention System analysis tools. In the course of my explanation I drew a bell curve on his whiteboard (as mathematicians, statisticians and physicists are wont to do). He was very impressed by how well I drew the curve freehand.<\/p>\n

I guess that's thing I learned at university that I never really thought about. I wonder if I can still draw Zeta and Xi. I remember the first time one of our lecturers drew a Xi on the blackboard at university - half the students didn't believe it was a real Greek letter.<\/p>\n

Talking of alphabets, Wikipedia<\/a> has some fascinating articles about obscure\/old alphabets and characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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