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  2. Infinity symbol - Wikipedia

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    The infinity symbol (∞) is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity. This symbol is also called a lemniscate, [1] after the lemniscate curves of a similar shape studied in algebraic geometry, [2] or "lazy eight", in the terminology of livestock branding. [3] This symbol was first used mathematically by John Wallis in the ...

  3. Infinity - Wikipedia

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    The infinity symbol (sometimes called the lemniscate) is a mathematical symbol representing the concept of infinity. The symbol is encoded in Unicode at U+221E ∞ INFINITY ( ∞ ) [ 25 ] and in LaTeX as \infty .

  4. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object, an action on mathematical objects, a relation between mathematical objects, or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula. As formulas are entirely constituted with symbols of various types, many symbols are needed for ...

  5. Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

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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.

  6. History of mathematical notation - Wikipedia

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    The symbol for five was the Greek letter Π ... is used for infinity, ... an effort to digest mathematics into terse text based on special symbols.

  7. Aleph number - Wikipedia

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    The aleph numbers differ from the infinity (∞) commonly found in algebra and calculus, in that the alephs measure the sizes of sets, while infinity is commonly defined either as an extreme limit of the real number line (applied to a function or sequence that "diverges to infinity" or "increases without bound"), or as an extreme point of the ...

  8. File:Infinity symbol.svg - Wikipedia

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    The following other wikis use this file: Usage on am.wikipedia.org አዕላፍ; Usage on ar.wikipedia.org لانهاية; أبد; رمز اللانهاية

  9. Infinity sign (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    The infinity sign or infinity symbol is commonly typed as , ∞ or ∞. Infinity sign may also refer to Infinity Sign, a 2018 posthumous compilation album of music by Stephen Huss "Infinity Sign" (stylised as ""), a song by Coldplay from their 2021 album Music of the Spheres