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  2. Infimum and supremum - Wikipedia

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    The supremum (abbreviated sup; pl.: suprema) of a subset of a partially ordered set is the least element in that is greater than or equal to each element of , if such an element exists. [1] If the supremum of S {\displaystyle S} exists, it is unique, and if b is an upper bound of S {\displaystyle S} , then the supremum of S {\displaystyle S} is ...

  3. Limit inferior and limit superior - Wikipedia

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    In mathematical analysis, limit superior and limit inferior are important tools for studying sequences of real numbers.Since the supremum and infimum of an unbounded set of real numbers may not exist (the reals are not a complete lattice), it is convenient to consider sequences in the affinely extended real number system: we add the positive and negative infinities to the real line to give the ...

  4. Essential infimum and essential supremum - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the concepts of essential infimum and essential supremum are related to the notions of infimum and supremum, but adapted to measure theory and functional analysis, where one often deals with statements that are not valid for all elements in a set, but rather almost everywhere, that is, except on a set of measure zero.

  5. List of mathematical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    def – define or definition. deg – degree of a polynomial, or other recursively-defined objects such as well-formed formulas. (Also written as ∂.) del – del, a differential operator. (Also written as.) det – determinant of a matrix or linear transformation. DFT – discrete Fourier transform.

  6. Completeness (order theory) - Wikipedia

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    Indeed the definition for Galois connections yields that in this case j * (*) ≤ x if and only if * ≤ j(x), where the right hand side obviously holds for any x. Dually, the existence of an upper adjoint for j is equivalent to X having a greatest element. Another simple mapping is the function q: X → X × X given by q(x) = (x, x).

  7. Support (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the support of a real-valued function is the subset of the function domain of elements that are not mapped to zero. If the domain of f {\displaystyle f} is a topological space , then the support of f {\displaystyle f} is instead defined as the smallest closed set containing all points not mapped to zero.

  8. What is a Fortune 500 company? The story behind the list - AOL

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    The list became the touchstone for tracking U.S. businesses and their rippling impact. “In its entirety, the 500 has been a wide window on the U.S. economy and a reference point for all,” the ...

  9. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    In applied fields the word "tight" is often used with the same meaning. [2] smooth Smoothness is a concept which mathematics has endowed with many meanings, from simple differentiability to infinite differentiability to analyticity, and still others which are more complicated. Each such usage attempts to invoke the physically intuitive notion ...