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As it pertains to legacy finance, symbols from the Greek alphabet have been used to express certain "meta-metrics" that relate to options. Options are exotic instruments that allow investors to gain abstract forms of exposure in their portfolio, namely as a right to purchase an asset without being obligated to execute the purchase of it. As it relates to technology, those same Greek symbols have been used to describe stages of product development (this applies far beyond and before crypto). So let's take a look at some of these ancient symbols in our modern world.