Talk:Lambda

message: "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)
thread_title: Breasts?

message: 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 [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 13:28, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: 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)
thread_title:  (one more time) 

message: Goodman & Kruskal's lambda is a statistic which gives the proportional reduction in error when one variable's values are used to predict the values of another variable.
Uhm... here is wilks' lambda then?
Clarification: The symbol for Wilks' Lambda is written in uppercase Greek: Λ (see under heading Upper-case letter Λ).  The symbol for Goodman & Kruskall's Lambda (a different statistic altogether) is written in lowercase Greek: λ (see under heading Lower-case letter λ).
FYI, here are the formulas for each:
\Lambda = \frac{ det(S_{error}) }{ det(S_{effect} + S_{error}) }
[see http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~hf101702/Julia_Wilk's%20Lamda.pdf]
\lambda(C|R) = \frac{ \sum_i r_i - \max_k(n_{.k}) }{N - \max_k(n_{.k}) }
where r_i = \max_k(n_{ik})
[see http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/getDoc/en/statug.hlp/freq_sect20.htm]
Mark Walter 06:20, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wilks's lambda

message: Does anyone know WHY lamda is used as a symbol of the LGBT community? I came here hoping to find out....Redclaire 23:19, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, that's a nice mini-essay, I suppose. A) Yes, the article does need this information (in fact, even I came here looking for the "why" behind this).  B) Source it. (whiny comment removed) — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 13:28, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Gay connection

message: Really? Darkpoet (talk) 15:55, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no such thing as a "copyrighted symbol" unless it is completely newly invented (e.g., the symbol used by the singer Prince). See copyright, trademark, patent and (more generally) intellectual property for the differences between various i.p. concepts.  A symbol can potentially be trademarked, within certain areas of commerce. 13:28, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No. I don't know if they actually trademarked the symbol in this use, but they certainly did (do?) use it as the logo for the Half Life series. And this use is clearly notable, so it would be logical to include this use. But maybe someone should check if it it was actually trademarked first? 87.60.235.135 (talk) 10:12, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyrighted symbol of Valve Software, used throughout the Half Life games. 

message: In extreme low temparture physics it (the lower case letter lambda) is used to indicate the super fluid point of Liquid Helium at 2.4 degrees kelvin
66.234.197.53 (talk) 05:17, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Thanks, Stickee (talk) 06:42, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

text: Is it related to the Lambda point? That article includes a couple of references. Mitch Ames (talk) 13:21, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from 66.234.197.53, 27 October 2010 

message: A typographical error exists in the article on the Greek letter lambda, under the discussion of the lower-case letter: In the sentence which reads, "In cartography and navigation, lambda denotes the longitude or a location," the word "or" should be "of". —JCAcheson@aol.com
72.144.193.201 (talk) 20:09, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from 72.144.193.201, 24 January 2011 

message: The lambda symbol is used as the logo for the Half-Life series of video games, and i feel this should be mentioned. (see http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Lambda_logo ) --Raddaluigi (talk) 07:03, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Half-Life 

message: A modified capital lambda is used as the symbol for the assassins in the Assassin's Creed series. I feel that this is worth mentioning.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/Assassin%27s_Creed_Logo.png
i also agree that the half life symbol being a lambda needs to be posted.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.99.96.11 (talk) 15:53, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assassin's Creed 

message: In the section referring to "functional programming", you have no link to your functional programing ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
Please replace all occurances of :
     functional programming
To be links to 
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
74.205.24.229 (talk) 14:46, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: MorganKevinJ(talk) 01:22, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from 74.205.24.229, 29 April 2011 

message: Good morning. On 15 Dec 2014, I removed a link to "anonymous function" in the "Lambda as a programming construct" section because it had already been linked in that section.  On 31 Dec 2014, 178.63.34.82 reverted that edit.  Is everyone else okay with me removing the repeated links to "anonymous function" from this article? Kind regards, Matt Heard (talk) 18:28, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated links 

message: 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)
thread_title: Tales of Graces

message: 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)
thread_title:  NATO use 

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