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∼
Type it
| Unicode | U+223C | |
|---|---|---|
| LaTeX | \sim | |
| HTML entity | ∼ | |
| Character | ∼ |
Meaning
States that two objects are related by an equivalence relation. For functions it often means the ratio of the two tends to 1, and in probability X ∼ D means X follows the distribution D. Compare with Asymptotically Equal and Approximately Equal.
How to read it
n! ∼ √(2πn)(n/e)ⁿ
is read “n factorial is asymptotic to the square root of two pi n times n over e to the n”.