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I would suggest a change to uppercase Gamma, which looks like a T, kinda. Also, it has always struck me as a looking kind of like a moment arm.

Something like this is bound to happen if mathematics pedagogy moves to tau as the circle constant, which it should. The math department has no motivation to respect physics convention, and the physics department will just have to get in line, eventually.



Or physicists/engineers will do their own thing, as seen by using j = sqrt(-1).

Also, uppercase gamma is already used, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_function


Granted, but interference with mechanical torque is unlikely.

Greek letters are pretty polysemantic in the context of maths and physics.




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