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Re: New version of my annotations to SRT

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Am Freitag000019, 19.04.2024 um 17:56 schrieb Python:
> Le 19/04/2024 à 17:40, Maciej Wozniak a écrit :
>> W dniu 19.04.2024 o 10:23, Python pisze:
>>> Le 19/04/2024 à 07:50, Thomas Heger a écrit :
>>> [...]
>>>> The system k had tall Greek letters as names of the axes:
>>>> Xsi, Eta and Zeta.
>>>>
>>>> Here Einstein made an error, too, because once defined these names 
>>>> had to be used.
>>>
>>> Xsi intervenes several times from the sentence "For a ray of light 
>>> emitted at the time $\tau =0$ in the direction of the increasing $\xi$"
>>> a few paragraphs later. All of them intervenes after the sentence
>>> "Substituting for x' its value, we obtain :"
>>>
>>>> In my role as a hypothetical professor, who had to write 
>>>> corrections, I freaked out a little at this point and wrote a big 
>>>> red 'F' on the first page on the paper.
>>>
>>> In my role as a hypothetical ophthalmologist I freak out a lot and
>>> advise you to buy glasses.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Oh, stinker Python is opening its muzzle again,
>> and trying again to pretend he knows something.
> 
> I can recognize the appearances of a greek letter in an
> article, can you?

You mentioned yet another issue in Einstein's paper:

it was not easy to decide, to which alphabet certain characters belong.

E.g. 'P' could be a large Latin 'p' or a large Greek 'Roh'.

other ambiguities:

small italic Latin 'v' and Greek 'ypsilon' are hard to distinguish
and
small italic Latin 'a' and small Greek 'alpha' are practially 
undistinguishable.

It requried a strong lens and some knowledge in criminalism to identify 
the meant alphabet.

Since Einstein didn't define any variable properly, you had to guess.


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