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by
unperson
Sat May 26 2001 at 1:10:29
In
literature
:
Beta was a
caste
in
Aldous Huxley
's novel
Brave New World
. As the name of the
caste suggests, betas were the second highest in the
caste system
, possessing physical
and mental abilities inferior only to those of the
alphas
.
In
physics
:
The
Greek
letter beta is often used as
variable
in
special relativity
to denote a velocity as a fraction of the
speed of light
.
Also,
beta particles
are a type of
radiation
; they are simply high energy
electron
s.
In
math
:
The
beta function
is a special function related to
gamma function
.
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