what is lamda?

Answer 1

Everyone's answers are correct, however lamda is also the London Acadamy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Just another option.

Answer 2

Lambda (uppercase Λ, lowercase λ) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 30. Letters that arose from Lambda include the Roman L and the Cyrillic letter El (Л, л).

In anatomy, the lambda is that point on the skull where the two parietal bones and the occipital bone come together. The configuration of the sutures resembles an upper case lambda, and the suture between each parietal bone and the occipital bone is called the lambdoid suture.
The language Unlambda is a functional programming language based upon combinatory logic, a simplification of the lambda calculus that does not involve the lambda at all, hence the un- prefix.
Guy Steele, both alone and with Gerald Sussman (the two co-inventors of the Scheme programming language), wrote a series of papers beginning with the title "Lambda, the ultimate" [1]. The programming website Lambda the Ultimate[2] derives its name from these papers.
Lambda is used in art and photography to refer to a digital Type C print or the equipment used to produce it.


Lambda or lamda???

Answer 3

LAMDA is not exciting for the technophile. Some annoying problems to solve, yes, but nothing revolutionary about the hardware or software. Just standard PCs, scanners and printers, loaded with the tried and tested RLG Ariel software. Perhaps the most exciting technical development has been the JEDDS software, which will allow e-mail delivery of scanned journal articles to the users desktop, but even that will not cause a frisson of excitement in the computer science community. Yet, people are talking about LAMDA and want to know more about this ground-breaking service.

Even viewed as a resource-sharing service I wonder why it has generated so much interest. Libraries have been sharing their resources for centuries, to a far greater extent than library users realise. True, resource-sharing (or "access" to give it its current name) has never formed the major component in any library service. The emphasis has always been upon holdings (librarians are as acquisitive as magpies) and the needs of most library users are met that way. But the value of resource-sharing has always been greater than statistics would indicate. It may only be one out of a thousand routine visits to a library, but that one visit to request an item from another library may make such a difference to the users research. For the librarian also, resource-sharing may have political value out of all proportion to its quantity in showing that librarians do co-operate. Ironically, to be actively involved in resource-sharing may increase the librarians chances of getting an increase in the book-buying budget. And yet the value of resource-sharing is heavily influenced by its cost. Resource-sharing is expected to save money, and expensive resource-sharing is perceived to be a contradiction in terms.

I think that is the secret of LAMDAs success. It is lean and mean resource-sharing. It covers its costs and robs nobody but it provides good value. Commercial document delivery exists to make a profit for the document supplier. LAMDA exists to share existing resources. Commercial users may be prepared to pay the prices charged by commercial document suppliers, but LAMDA exists to meet the needs of an academic community which has been grumbling about the even the prices charged by the British Library Document Supply Centre. Many still perceive the BLDSC to provide good value, but the academic document delivery market is increasingly price- sensitive. LAMDAs current price of £3.60 per journal article supplied is good value and covers all the supplying librarys costs. If it does not rob the customer, neither does it rob the publisher, as the copies supplied are largely from low-use journals which have been purchased by one library but which will never be purchased by all.

There is nothing exciting about LAMDAs level of service either. The service is good, but no better than library users have the right to expect. There is nothing wonderful about LAMDAs speed of delivery - any document supplier ought to be able to achieve 48 hour turnaround ...

Answer 4

Lambda is a Greek letter. Mathematicians and scientists often run out of latin letters and so steal some greek ones. In mathematics Lambda Calculus is used for a particular type of functional logic. In Physics Lambda is often used as a symbol for wavelength.

Maybe you couldn't find it on Wikipedia because you missed out the b?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda

Answer 5

It's a greek letter used for many things in physics and other subjects. Most commonly used as the symbol for the wavelength of a wave. But there's other things too.

Answer 6

Lambda is wave lenght in Physics. f= frequency 1/sec
and Lambda in meters so we can write the equation of velacity of a wave(radiation).Here
V = f . Lambda =v m/sec

Answer 7

Lambda (uppercase Λ, lowercase λ) is the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 30. Letters that arose from Lambda include the Roman L and the Cyrillic letter El (Л, л).

Upper-case letter Λ
The lambda particles in particle physics.
The set of logical axioms in the axiomatic method of logical deduction in first-order logic.
The cosmological constant.
Used as a shield pattern by the Spartan army; it stood for Lakedaimon, the name of the region.
The von Mangoldt function in number theory.
In statistics, Wilk's lambda is used in multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) to compare group means on a combination of dependent variables.
In spectral decomposition of matrices, a diagonal matrix of eigenvalues of the decomposed matrix.
In astronomy, the likelihood that a small body will encounter a planet or dwarf planet leading to a deflection of a particular magnitude. An object with a large value is expected to have cleared its neighborhood, satisfying the current definition of a planet.

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A non-SI unit of measure of volume (symbol λ) equal to one microlitre (1 μL) or one cubic millimetre (1 mm³). This now-rare use is deprecated.
The wavelength of a wave in physics
The radioactive decay constant (Connected to Half-life of a radioactive isotope in physics)
The lambda phage virus in biology
In computer science, the empty string, though different writers use a variety of other symbols for the empty string as well, including the lower case Greek letter epsilon.
Eigenvalues in linear algebra
Goodman & Kruskal's lambda is a statistic that gives the proportional reduction in error when one variable's values are used to predict the values of another variable.
Function expressions in lambda calculus and, by extension, some programming languages
Said to signify unity under oppression, explaining its use in the video game Half-Life
stoichiometric air to fuel ratio oxygen sensor in an internal combustion engine's exhaust gas
A Japanese rocket type, Lambda (rocket)
The failure rate in hours (also the reciprocal of MTBF) in reliability theory.
In criminology, the individual offending frequency.

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In anatomy, the lambda is that point on the skull where the two parietal bones and the occipital bone come together. The configuration of the sutures resembles an upper case lambda, and the suture between each parietal bone and the occipital bone is called the lambdoid suture.
The language Unlambda is a functional programming language based upon combinatory logic, a simplification of the lambda calculus that does not involve the lambda at all, hence the un- prefix.
Guy Steele, both alone and with Gerald Sussman (the two co-inventors of the Scheme programming language), wrote a series of papers beginning with the title "Lambda, the ultimate" [1]. The programming website Lambda the Ultimate[2] derives its name from these papers.
Lambda is used in art and photography to refer to a digital Type C print or the equipment used to produce it.

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The popular science fiction universe of Star Wars uses a transport vehicle known as the Lambda-class shuttle that when viewed forward has the shape of the lambda.
Lambda is occasionally used in graphic design to replace capital A's. Examples include the Disney movie Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the logo of the band Angels and Airwaves.

A capital LambdaThe lowercase lambda is a symbol collectively representing the LGBT social movements for civil rights.
In the popular games Half-Life and with a "2" superscript in Half-Life 2, lambda is the logo of the Lambda Complex, part of the Black Mesa Research Facility which contains teleportation technology, and later in the story the character is the symbol of the human Resistance against the Combine alien empire. The Lambda character inside a ring is also the logo of these games and the Lambda is sometimes used replacing the upper-case a in spelling Half-Life. The main character's outfit sometimes includes a Lambda on his chest.
As a bonus following the conclusion of the X-DAY manga, by Mizushiro Setona, the second book features a short tale entitled "The Last Supper." Its protagonist is a cow, genetically modified to have more human features, Lambda 26. The lambda character is tattooed on the outside of his right forearm.
GM Lambda platform, a crossover SUV automobile platform from General Motors
The name of the Nerds' fraternity in Revenge of the Nerds film series was Lambda Lambda Lambda, or "the Tri-Lambs." The logo consisted of three capital Lambda letters inside a triangle.
In the popular anime series Full Metal Panic! A very select few Armslaves possess the device called the Lambda Driver which can manifest emotional thought patterns into raw physical(and sometimes destructive) power. In FMP!(primary series) Sousuke Sagara's ARX-7 "Arbalest" has a Lambda Driver(but due to Sagara's lack of experience with it only served to aid him most minimally and improved as time progressed). All oppositions Sousuke has faced where his enemy has used the Lambda Driver also exhibited great power, especially Gauron on three counts; and were all defeated using Arbalest's Lambda Driver.
In the Sailor Moon manga, the character Sailor Cosmos claimed to have the ultimate "Lambda Power."
Is the one of the main antagonists in Wild Arms: The 4th Detonator.
In the video game Skies of Arcadia, the character Aika uses an attack known as Lambda Burst. In fact, all her attacks are based on Greek letters.
Lambda is a name of an electrostatic headphone made by the audio company Stax Earspeakers. It is also a name of an amp made by Z-audio.

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Answer 8

its a greek letter. usually used for wavelength.