The summer before I started, the dean had the arriving students read the Iliad and memorize the Greek alphabet.

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He did this simply so that the paper might be credited to Alpher, Bethe, Gamow, close enough to the first three letters of the Greek alphabet.

ECONOMIST: Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist, died on March 6th, aged 98

Vega is not actually part of the true Greek alphabet (Alpha-Beta) that is so beloved by financial quants etc and yet it fits neatly into the family tree of performance benchmarks.

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