{"id":10100,"date":"2006-05-02T21:00:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/02\/from-alpha-to-omega\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T21:00:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T18:00:37","slug":"from-alpha-to-omega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/05\/02\/from-alpha-to-omega\/","title":{"rendered":"From alpha to omega"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many years ago, when I was in highschool, I had an encyclopedia, called “From alpha to omega”. It was a soft cover book with a whole bunch of interesting facts and measures. A sort of mix between Guiness World Records<\/a> book and units utility<\/a> on UNIX.<\/p>\n

Judging by the title, I thought that I had volume 1 of a two-books set. Alpha is like A in English alphabet, or A in Russian alphabet – the first letter. Omega, I figured, is like O – somewhere in the middle. There should be another volume with the title like “From Pita to Zeta”. Or something along those lines.<\/p>\n

Today, I attended the first lesson<\/a> of Greek language. Alphabet is usually among the first things they teach you, when starting with a new language. Today wasn’t an exception. I learned that alpha is the first letter of Greek alphabet<\/a>, and omega is the last. My view of the world changed. Suddenly, it seemed like there was much less information out there, than I thought there is.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Many years ago, when I was in highschool, I had an encyclopedia, called “From alpha to omega”. It was a soft cover book with a whole bunch of interesting facts and measures. A sort of mix between Guiness World Records book and units utility on UNIX. 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