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Re: Variable names in Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg92090] Re: Variable names in Mathematica
• From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
• Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:55:47 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: University of Bergen
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Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> NO, they are NOT reserved.  Example (converted to InputForm, which I'd 
> never use when actually entering Greek letters
> 
>    \[Alpha]=2;
>    \[Alpha]+10
> 12
> 
> Perhaps you're confusing some Greek letters with similarly-shaped 
> symbols, such as the Element symbol or the Sum symbol.
> 

Maybe confusing \[Alpha] with \[Proportional]?  Use ESC a ESC to type alpha.

• References:
  • Variable names in Mathematica
    • From: amannuc1 <Anthony.J.Mannucci@jpl.nasa.gov>