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Descending wedge

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Vel[1] (∨) (vel is "or" in Latin) or descending wedge is a symbol used to represent:

It was used by Russell and Whitehead in Principia Mathematica. In Unicode the symbol is encoded U+2228 ∨ LOGICAL OR (∨, ∨) and by \vee and \lor in TeX. The opposite symbol (∧) is called a wedge.

See also

References

  1. ^ Whitehead, A.N., and Russell, Bertrand, Principia Mathematica
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