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Comment by boothby

3 months ago

First letter of the Hebrew alphabet, used by mathematicians to denote infinities.

That's what Google told me, but i still don't see how it links to this?

  • It doesn't -- it's marketing, much like adding "Labs" to the end of your company's name. Its association with infinity makes the company sound cooler to potential customers, many of whom are software engineers who consciously or unconsciously view pure mathematics as a prestige "final form" of their own logic-focused mental ability.