It is believed the name "The Kappas" is derived from a slur used by other /etc/groups to describe this group. The slur derives from the [K Programming Language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)), an extreme example of this culture that is not widely known within it. The name used by the group to describe itself remains unknown, as this fact was likely stored in a comment rather than a variable name, or perhaps in the name of a macro that was lost at compile time. Often called The Rectangle People by other /etc/groups. They seem to believe themselves to be "mathematicians" of some sort, though their verbiage, values, and behaviors suggest they're most likely a mixture of numerical analysts and former physics graduate students. A strange and primitive culture. ## Features - Monk-like. - Immune to pain or pleasure. - Often seen in academia, though never near the ivory bits. - Low status applied academic computation. ## Heritage - Fortran. - Punch cards. - APL. - K. - Matlab. - Scilab. - Numpy. - Pandas. ## Believes - Everything is a rectangle. - Everything is plural. - Objects are indices. - Adjectives are primary. - Completely insane. ## Rumors Often traps a low-intelligence member of the Mus and convinces them that the pinnacle of human achievement is: - The Relational model. - Pivot tables. - Excel.