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To: worldcup1998 who wrote (5214)	11/29/2021 9:33:54 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6326

They started out calling it Nu. That caused confusion right away. Omicron is interesting. Omicron is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet. And it has the value 70 in Greek numerals. Omicron literally 'small o': (ò mikrón), micron meaning 'small' in contrast to omega) Omicron is mostly used as a symbol of the fifteenth star in a constellation group. There is a star system named Omicron Andromedae in the constellation Andromeda. Omicron Ceti is a red giant star in the constellation Cetus. And Omicron Persei is another star system in the constellation of Perseus. The letter omicron took its root from the Phoenician letter ayin (ayn or ain), which was shaped like a circle. And it meant "eye" in Phoenician language. The uppercase omicron was used to denote Big O notation in mathematics. Big O notation is a mathematical notation that describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity. ... In computer science, big O notation is used to classify algorithms according to how their run time or space requirements grow as the input size grows. ...use big-O notation to asymptotically bound the growth of a running time to within constant factors above and below. O micron ova will you be omega, no another clean slate