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 …

Mar 18, 2011 · For future reference, the table of mathematical symbols at wikipedia is fairly extensive and has a number of further references.

Apr 20, 2016 · I am doing IGCSE Maths, and am having a few problems with function notation. I understand the form f(x) f (x). What does the form f: x↦ y f: x ↦ y mean? Could you also give …

What is the meaning of the notation $\exp (\text {expression})$ ? I think that it's something of the form $a^\text {expression}$ but does it mean that the base $a=e ...

Jun 25, 2014 · I have started seeing the "∈" symbol in math. What exactly does it mean? I have tried googling it but google takes the symbol out of the search.

Dec 22, 2020 · I have encountered this when referencing subsets and vector subspaces. For example, T ⊊ span(S) should mean that T is smaller than span(S)--at least from what I've …

Mar 27, 2013 · In programming terms, parameter is a name for a variable in function definition. When using the function, you give arguments. I tend to think that the general syntax in math is …

Nov 7, 2015 · What exactly does $\ll$ mean? I am familiar that this symbol means much less than. ...but what exactly does "much less than" mean? (Or the corollary, $\gg$) On Wikipedia, the …

Mar 3, 2019 · Whats the meaning of this symbol? Its a three dot symbol: ∴ I read a book, im could not find any definition of this symbol. This is about continuum property of the natural numbers …

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