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Contents 1 Zen 2 Exact measurement? 3 Philosophical mu? 4 Disambig repair 5 μ-operator 6 nyogtsog

[edit] Zen

The stuff about "mu" (in Zen Buddhism) does perhaps belong, but not as a dialogue taken from GEB! This is an encyclopedia!  :-) --LMS

It's just a conspiracy (Ur, no that takes more'n one...) to instigate editing. I don't know much about Zen, but I thought it was cute and might entice someone to put in some real info. Hmmm, I wonder if I link Ur someone will write about the city .... --loh (2001-06-15)

Thanks for the update to the Zen type of "mu". What I had put was a little scattered and off the top of my head. --Joshua Eckroth

[edit] Exact measurement?

Mu (Chinese unit of measurement) (亩), equal to 666.7 square metres.

Is this the exact figure or is it actually 2/3 of 1,000 square metres. I ask because it is not universally known that, in the UK at least, 1 inch is defined as exactly 2.54 centimetres: most people think this is an approximation. --Phil 10:33, Jan 26, 2004 (UTC)

Dunno, I pulled it out of my otherwise quite good, recently published Chinese/English dictionary, so it could be either way --prat 12:48, 2004 Jan 26 (UTC)

[edit] Philosophical mu?

Isn't there another mu that means neither yes, nor no? My friends seem to use it and I was hoping to figure out what the bloomin' 'eck they're wittering on about. I suppose I'll have to invite them to write it. --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 14:52, Sep 9, 2004 (UTC)

That's mu (Japanese word) (the one listed here as "important to Zen"). Its usage as "neither yes nor no, as the question assumes things that are untrue" is common in some programmer circles, and comes from Discordianism (which ultimately got it from a Zen koan). — Gwalla | Talk 20:57, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Ah. Many thanks. --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 00:12, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Disambig repair

In the process of cleaning out the ambigious links, there were two that need articles:

1. The chinese unit of measurement, and
2. The electronics (vaccuum tube?) term.

As these don't exist yet, I've removed them from the articles that pointed to this page.
brenneman^(t)(c) 00:52, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] μ-operator

There is an operator called this in computer science (see partially recursive functions). ♥♥♥: Gubb  ✍    2006. September 9 17:06 (CEST) 17:06, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] nyogtsog

nyogtyog can be:

• Mu (letter), nyog or tyog, a letter in the Greek alphabet pronounced "mew" (/mju/). μ is used as a symbol for:
  • The SI prefix micro
  • In mathematics,
    • The arithmetic mean of a statistical population
    • The Möbius function
    • The least-fixed-point-operator
  • In physics,
    • The friction coefficient
    • The mobility coefficient
    • The permeability (electromagnetism) coefficient
    • The muon
    • The standard gravitational parameter
    • The magnetic dipole moment
    • Reduced mass
  • µTorrent, a freeware BitTorrent client for Microsoft Windows written in C++.

In Asian languages:

• Mù, (穆), a Chinese surname
• Mu (unit of area) (亩/畝), a Chinese unit of area
• Mu (kana), represented by the Japanese kana む or ム
• Mu (negative) (無), a Japanese word important in Zen koan practice

Mu may also refer to:

• Muonium's atomic symbol
• Mu-metal, an alloy used for screening magnetic fields
• Mu (lost continent), a mythical continent in the Pacific Ocean subsequently appearing in several books, films, and games
• Mu (rocket), a Japanese rocket
• Mu Dan, Chinese poet and translator
• Mu, a women's Ultimate frisbee team based in England called Midlands Ultimate
• Mu Online, an online role-playing game
• Mu La Flaga, a character from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
• Aries Mu, a character from the cartoon Saint Seiya
• Mu phage, a bacteriophage
• Groupe Mu, an interdisciplinary Belgian group focusing on linguistics and rhetoric

MU may stand for:

• Manipal University, a deemed university in Karnataka, India
• Mauritius' ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
• China Eastern Airlines's IATA code
• Manchester United Football club
• The Mothers' Union, global Anglican women's organisation
• Monitor unit, a unit used in radiation therapy
• Centimorgan or "map unit", a unit of recombinant frequency in genetics
• Multiple unit, such as a rail diesel car
• MU puzzle, a puzzle in Gödel, Escher, Bach
• University of Mumbai, formerly called the University of Bombay
• Marquette University
• Marshall University
• Miami University
• Millersville University of Pennsylvania
• University of Missouri–Columbia
• Mahidol University, University in Thailand
• MU (band), an early 1970s psychedelic group led by Merrell Fankhauser and Jeff Cotton
• MisUnderstood word, a term in Scientology
• Mirror Universe (Star Trek), fictional parallel universe in which the plots of several Star Trek television episodes take place
• Magic-User, a class type in D&D, HackMaster, and many fantasy RPGs
• Musician, an enlisted rating in the United States Navy
• Isuzu MU Wizard

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