Greek letters\epsilon

\epsilonSymbol

The ϵ symbol (Greek lunate epsilon symbol, U+03F5), written as \epsilon in LaTeX math mode.

\epsilon

Topic: Greek letters
Available in: base
Allowed mode: math
Frequency: 3.95% of corpus formulasrank 30 of 474
Glyph: ϵ
Unicode: U+03F5 · GREEK LUNATE EPSILON SYMBOL

Common tasks#

How to write a Greek epsilon#

\epsilon

How to write an epsilon-delta limit#

0<|x-a|<\delta \implies |f(x)-L|<\epsilon

How to choose the lunate epsilon instead#

\epsilon and \varepsilon are different glyphs; pick one and stay consistent.

\varepsilon

In TeXForm#

TeXForm parses this entry as a character leaf mapped to U+03F5 (GREEK LUNATE EPSILON SYMBOL).

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