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The Greek characters in the screenshot are standard for the subject. The letters "chi" and "psi" (in that order) are the preferred letters for denoting Dirichlet characters, and zeros of L-functions are always denoted by "rho."


See, this is what I meant. Not only reading in the paper where X was defined but have this in-depth knowledge of why a certain symbol was used and how it came to be, knowledge that probably not even all full-time mathematicians that studied their entire life have.


I see, this makes sense. Probably gets easier when one gets used to it.




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