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RE: Re: A symbol for Floor

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• Subject: [mg36574] RE: [mg36547] Re: A symbol for Floor
• From: "DrBob" <drbob at bigfoot.com>
• Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 01:13:34 -0400 (EDT)
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OK, I give up; how would I find "Chapter Advanced
Mathematics/Mathematical and Other Notations/Operators" in the Help
Browser?

Bobby Treat

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Dreyer [mailto:dreyer at itwm.fhg.de] 
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg36574] [mg36547] Re: A symbol for Floor


Jack Goldberg wrote:
> 
> Hi Group!
> 
> A commonly used symbol for the Floor function is a square bracket with
the
> upper indents removed.  Is this symbol part of Mathematica's built-in
symbols?  I
> think not, so then, can it be constructed "by hand".
> 
> Jack

Hi Jack!

\[LeftFloor] and \[RightFloor] can be used for this.

Look at Chapter Advanced Mathematics/Mathematical and Other Notations/
Operators.

Yours,
  Alexander
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