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Phi
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Phi

Phi   (English)

Definition (keystage 3)

The Greek letter φ (lower case) or Φ (upper case), equivalent in sound to the English f.
Small phi is used to denote the altitude angle in 3-d polar co-ordinates, and for Euler's phi function. Capital phi is used to denote the cyclotomic polynomial, or the inverse cumulative distribution function of the standard normal distribution.

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