Mar 18, 2011 · It's one common notation for stating that the left-hand side is defined as (in contrast to equal to) the expression on the right-hand side.

Feb 20, 2013 · A better, but less common, notation is $\varepsilon$ (formatted with $\varepsilon$). You can find answers and comments related to that latter symbol $\varepsilon$ …

Dec 13, 2016 · An unsophisticated question from a neophyte: Given the numbers: $1,2,3,4,5$ What is the symbol for the range of the numbers? i.e. the lowest-highest number in the set. …

To summarize what has been said in the comments, there are no "official" symbols. Use whichever notation you feel most comfortable with, as long as it makes sense and can be …

They are integral parts of larger notations which don't have any individual formal meaning -- the fact that expressing the entire notation in English sometimes involves saying "such that" …

Aug 5, 2023 · 2 It's just notation, you shouldn't think so hard about it. At some point we were gonna run out of symbols. In any case, if you have set theory as a foundation, everything is a …

In mathematical notation, what are the usage differences between the various approximately-equal signs "≈", "≃", and "≅"? The Unicode standard lists all of them inside the Mathematical …

Sep 11, 2017 · Sometimes $\mathbb {N}_0$ is used to denote the natural numbers including zero, so this notation may be ambiguous.

Apr 20, 2016 · So, now they have anonymous functions, defined through lambda terms, the actual syntax used for the terms more closely resembling the arrow notation than the lambda notation.

May 23, 2011 · I have a question about the proper notation of the following (simplified) example: I want to express that I have a value alpha, which is the maximum of a set of n values. Each …