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In summary, a set of the real numbers is an interval, if and only if it is an open interval, a closed interval, or a half-open interval. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A degenerate interval is any set consisting of a single real number (i.e., an interval of the form [ a , a ] ). [ 6 ]
The main objective of interval arithmetic is to provide a simple way of calculating upper and lower bounds of a function's range in one or more variables. These endpoints are not necessarily the true supremum or infimum of a range since the precise calculation of those values can be difficult or impossible; the bounds only need to contain the function's range as a subset.
4. Standard notation for an equivalence relation. 5. In probability and statistics, may specify the probability distribution of a random variable. For example, (,) means that the distribution of the random variable X is standard normal. [2] 6. Notation for proportionality.
Given real numbers x and y, integers m and n and the set of integers, floor and ceiling may be defined by the equations ⌊ ⌋ = {}, ⌈ ⌉ = {}. Since there is exactly one integer in a half-open interval of length one, for any real number x, there are unique integers m and n satisfying the equation
Archimedean property: for every real number x, there is an integer n such that < (take, = +, where is the least upper bound of the integers less than x). Equivalently, if x is a positive real number, there is a positive integer n such that 0 < 1 n < x {\displaystyle 0<{\frac {1}{n}}<x} .
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4 members of a sequence of nested intervals. In mathematics, a sequence of nested intervals can be intuitively understood as an ordered collection of intervals on the real number line with natural numbers =,,, … as an index.
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