Epsilon
ε
Type it
| Unicode | U+03B5 | |
|---|---|---|
| LaTeX | \varepsilon | |
| HTML entity | ε | |
| Character | ε |
Meaning
The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet. It usually stands for an arbitrarily small positive number. In LaTeX, \varepsilon gives this form and \epsilon gives the lunate form ϵ. Compare with Delta and Element Of.
How to read it
ε > 0
is read “epsilon is greater than zero”.