Psi (letter) (generalized) positional states of a qubit in a quantum computer. Psi is also used as the symbol for the polygamma function, defined by where formula_3 is the gamma function. The letters Ψ or ψ can also be a symbol for: These characters are used only as mathematical symbols. Stylized Greek text should be encoded using the normal Greek letters, with markup and formatting to indicate text style. Psi (letter) Psi (; uppercase ', lowercase '; "psi" ) is the 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet and has a numeric value of 700. In both Classical and Modern Greek, the letter
History of the Greek alphabet foreshadowed the development of vowel letters with a limited use of "matres lectionis", that is, consonants that pulled double duty as vowels, which for historical reasons occurred mostly at the ends of words. For example, the two letters "wāw" and "yōdh" stood for both the approximant consonants and , and the long vowels and in Phoenician. By this point in time, Greek had lost its sound, so Phoenician "yōdh" was used only for its vocalic value, becoming the Greek vowel letter iota . However, several Greek dialects still had a sound, and here "wāw" was used for both of its