The following table lists many common symbols together with their name pronunciation and the related field of mathematicsAdditionally the third column contains an informal definition the fourth column gives a short example the fifth and sixth give the Unicode location and name for use in HTML documents. Without proper rendering support you may see question marks boxes or other symbols instead of mathematical symbols. The Mathematical symbol is used to denote a function or to signify the relationship between numbers and variables.
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Natural numbers whole numbers set with zero 0 01234 0 0. As formulas are entirely constituted with symbols of various types many symbols are needed for expressing all mathematics. A mathematical symbol is a figure or a combination of figures that is used to represent a mathematical object an action on mathematical objects a relation between mathematical objects or for structuring the other symbols that occur in a formula. The symbol is also commonly used to show a minus or negative number such as 2.