Re:Much less than, Much greater than symbols
by iratewizard on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:50AM
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This is getting ridiculous. How long until we have things uncountably more than other things?
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Re:Much less than, Much greater than symbols
by infogulch on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:58AM
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Could you combining-character an aleph-1 symbol on top of one of these?
Re:Much less than, Much greater than symbols
by thaumasiotes on Sunday September 12, 2021 @02:04AM
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In math, when you care about the details of how small one thing is compared to some other thing, you probably use little-o notation. It's the same thing you're probably familiar with from computer science.
So if y is small compared to x, you might say y = o(x), or if it's really small compared to x, you might say y = o(x²), or if it's really really really small, o(x⁶)... whatever you need for your proof.
(o(x²) is more impressively small than o(x) because x < 1)
Re:Much less than, Much greater than symbols
by HPsquared on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:31AM
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Nice
That reminds me of something about the Greek letters Omega (Ω, ω) and Omicron (Ο, ο). O-mega means "big O" and O-micron means "small O".
Re:Much less than, Much greater than symbols
by emilsedgh on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:55AM
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Isn't that +∞ and -∞?
Re:Much less than, Much greater than symbols
by jimktrains2 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @08:55AM
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Some infinities are countable.
Re:Much less than, Much greater than symbols
by marcosdumay on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:52PM
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Yes, but the GP's idea extends to larger infinities.