Greek letters\varepsilon

\varepsilonSymbol

The ε symbol (Greek small letter epsilon, U+03B5), written as \varepsilon in LaTeX math mode.

\varepsilon
Available in
base
Allowed mode
math
Frequency
4.15% of corpus formulasrank 27 of 474
Glyph
ε
Unicode
U+03B5 · GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON

Common tasks#

How to write a lunate epsilon#

\varepsilon

How to write a small error term#

x_n = x+\varepsilon_n

How to contrast the two epsilon glyphs#

\varepsilon\neq\epsilon

In TeXForm#

TeXForm parses this entry as a character leaf mapped to U+03B5 (GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON).

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