Tuesday, 17 September 2013

notation - Is there a standard shorthand for the set 0,1,dots,k1,k+1,dots,n1,n?



The question title pretty much says it all.



In derivations where there's some fancy footwork being done with indices, I find expressions like



ikxi



a bit too vague. On the other hand, this is explicit enough, but just too unwieldy and awkward-looking:




i{0,1,,k1,k+1,,n1,n}xi



(Of course, I can invent my own notation, but I consider this the "the nuclear option.")


Answer



I've seen {0,,ˆk,,n}, but that's not much shorter.



Alternatively, [n] is often shorthand for {1,,n}, so you could use [n]{k}.


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