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DetlefK

(16,670 posts) Wed Dec 14, 2016, 04:20 AM Dec 2016

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A joke only mathematicians will get (Original Post) DetlefK Dec 2016 OP

I don't re-member TexasTowelie Dec 2016 #1

Ah, now I recall. TexasTowelie Dec 2016 #3

(126,244 posts)

1. I don't re-member

Wed Dec 14, 2016, 04:33 AM

Dec 2016

and how is it pronounced?

(My degree in math was from about 30 years ago after all.)

(16,670 posts)

2. It's a small epsilon. And it's used for certain methods that involve a limes...

Wed Dec 14, 2016, 04:36 AM

Dec 2016

(126,244 posts)

3. Ah, now I recall.

Wed Dec 14, 2016, 04:42 AM

Dec 2016

I was fortunate in that I never had to make the association of that symbol with anything personal.