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The OpenType font format has the feature tag "mgrk" ("Mathematical Greek") to identify a glyph as representing a Greek letter to be used in mathematical (as opposed to Greek language) contexts. The table below shows a comparison of Greek letters rendered in TeX and HTML. The font used in the TeX rendering is an italic style.
Change of any changeable quantity, in mathematics and the sciences (in particular, the difference operator [5] [6]); for example, in =, the average change of y per unit x (i.e. the change of y over the change of x). Delta is the initial letter of the Greek word διαφορά, diaphorá, "difference".
Symbol Name Date of earliest use ... Use of the letter x for an independent variable or unknown value. See History of algebra: The symbol x. 1637 [2]
3. Between two groups, may mean that the first one is a proper subgroup of the second one. > (greater-than sign) 1. Strict inequality between two numbers; means and is read as "greater than". 2. Commonly used for denoting any strict order. 3. Between two groups, may mean that the second one is a proper subgroup of the first one. ≤ 1.
The number of days between two dates, which is simply the difference in their Julian day numbers. The dates of moveable holidays, like Christian Easter (the calculation is known as Computus) followed up by Ascension Thursday and Pentecost or Advent Sundays, or the Jewish Passover, for a given year. Converting a date between different calendars.
Greek numerals, also known as Ionic, Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals, is a system of writing numbers using the letters of the Greek alphabet.In modern Greece, they are still used for ordinal numbers and in contexts similar to those in which Roman numerals are still used in the Western world.
greek beta symbol u+03d1: ϑ: greek theta symbol u+03d2: ϒ: greek upsilon with hook symbol u+03d5: ϕ: greek phi symbol u+03f0: ϰ: greek kappa symbol u+03f1: ϱ: greek rho symbol u+03f4: ϴ: greek capital theta symbol u+03f5: ϵ: greek lunate epsilon symbol u+03f6 ϶ greek reversed lunate epsilon symbol
The following table lists many common symbols, together with their name, how they should be read out loud, and the related field of mathematics. Additionally, the subsequent columns contains an informal explanation, a short example, the Unicode location, the name for use in HTML documents, [1] and the LaTeX symbol.