Re: approximately less than

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From: Lord Automato
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 00:55

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In article <JMD.92Aug10141752@lion.bear.com>, jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond) writes:
|> 
|> In article <1992Aug10.013303.18070@mcshub.dcss.mcmaster.ca> bunker@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Alex Bunker) writes:
|> 
|>    I need to write the symbol "approximately less than" in latex,
|>    I see no way to do this in Lamont. Is there a way to write this symbol?
|>    (< over tilda)
|> 
|> This may seem like a silly question which is beside the point, but how
|> can one value be "approximately less than" another? Either a < b, or
|> a >= b...

"approximately less than" or rather "asymptotically less than" can be found
in a version of the AMS-TeX  which is not amount the standard distribution of
TeX (PC version). In UNIX, you might be able to use it with 

\input amssymbols.sty

or

\input mssymb

and the command is \lesssim  or  \lessapprox  depending on what you want.

Lin Can
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