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Title: School testing easter egg?
Post by: shrimp on May 04, 2011, 12:39:26 AM: Today I was doing the state school testing thing (blech :P) And I noticed on the Mathematics test one of the questions had a Lamba symbol from HL2 above the question number!!! Wow I didn't know School test's now have Easter eggs. ;D
Title: Re: School testing easter egg?
Post by: lemonshit on May 04, 2011, 01:03:43 AM: /me facepalms... I actually learned about it in science in the 6th grade when learning about the scientific half-life.
Title: Re: School testing easter egg?
Post by: Somone77 on May 04, 2011, 06:19:44 PM: Doesn't HAVE to be a reference to Half Life 2. It is, after all, just a Greek letter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda
Title: Re: School testing easter egg?
Post by: JF on May 04, 2011, 10:05:25 PM: Too much HL2RP can be bad for you huh?
You probably think you're Gordon Freeman himself xD
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Post by: ???????Â£??Rose Nocturna??? on May 04, 2011, 10:06:25 PM: Its used in science to represent wavelength.
Title: Re: School testing easter egg?
Post by: Its Max Blad on May 05, 2011, 02:28:15 AM: Quote from: ?[SP]?à??Û£Û?Krystal Û£Û?Wolf on May 04, 2011, 10:06:25 PM
Its used in science to represent wavelength.
Yeah, I got taught it a few months ago in British GCSE Higher Physics

It is used in the formula of (If I remember rightly):

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WaveLength = WaveSpeed / Frequency
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/a/1/0/a100432cfbaa6417ffccfab51609f53b.png)
Title: Re: School testing easter egg?
Post by: shrimp on May 07, 2011, 05:37:49 AM: Well im an idiot. lol :P