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Last letter of the Greek alphabet

Omega is the twenty-fourth and last letter of the Greek alphabet. In the Greek numeric system/isopsephy (gematria), it has a value of 800. The name of the letter was originally ὦ, but it was later changed to ὦ μέγα to distinguish it from omicron ⟨ο⟩, whose name means 'small o', as both letters had come to be pronounced. In modern Greek, its name has fused into ωμέγα. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: OmegaA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Vitamin D and marine omega 3 fatty acid supplementation and incident autoimmune disease: VITAL randomized controlled trialInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Omega tableThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Fast, scalable generation of high‐quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal OmegaCited 15,094 times
  5. Go sideways: Pi (letter)A closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: GammaA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun The twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek alphabet. Uppercase version: Ω; lowercase: ω.

Noun The end; the final, last or ultimate in a sequence.

Noun Angular velocity; symbol: ω.

Noun A transfinite ordinal number referring to the next position after ordering a countably infinite set.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. The symbol Ω (uppercase letter)
  3. The symbol ω (lowercase letter)
  4. Unicode

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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