Author:
Kirby Lambert
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Date Posted: 18:28:28 08/19/10 Thu
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>>I'm still laughing. . .
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>>Lambda Lambda Lambda, that famous College Fraternity.
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>>As in Lambdatron. Maybe someone else has mentioned it
>>before, I didn't read all the way back in the
>archives.
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>>Larry
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>G'day,
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>I know nothing about this fraternity you mention,
>maybe it's a USA thing. BUT the word Lambda is the
>name for a Greek letter, and I do know most of the big
>USA university/colleges that have fraternities usually
>use a Greek letter for the fraternity name, so such a
>case it likely.
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>HOWEVER, Lambda is used in mathematics and physics for
>a number of things, but more relevant to Lambdatron is
>how it's used in computing (from the wiki article on
>Lambda):
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>"In computer science, lambda is the time window over
>which a process is observed for determining the
>working memory set for a digital computer's virtual
>memory management."
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>And this has a direct relationship to much of what
>goes on at that company. During the period MC is set
>in, it was very common for computing related companies
>to add 'tron' to the end of whatever they used as a
>name, so Lambdatron is a very logical computer company
>name. What surprises me most is that it a company
>doing that sort of work did NOT use it and register it
>before Wes used it.
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>Ernest
Ernest:
I think he is referring to the frat in the movie "Revenge of the Nerds".
Kirby
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