Double Square Brackets

Type it

Ways to write the Double Square Brackets symbol
UnicodeU+27E6 U+27E7
LaTeX\llbracket \rrbracket
HTML entity⟦ ⟧
Character⟦⟧

Meaning

Enclose an expression to mean its value or meaning in semantics. They also mark integer intervals, so ⟦1, n⟧ means the whole numbers from 1 to n. In LaTeX they need the stmaryrd package. Compare with Square Brackets and Integers.

How to read it

⟦1, n⟧

is read “the integers from one to n”.

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