Tilde Operator
Part of Math Symbols
Tilde Operator has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ∼
- Unicode
- U+223C
About this symbol
∼, the tilde operator, has many jobs: in statistics X ∼ N(0, 1) means X follows a normal distribution, elsewhere it means “similar to” or “of the order of”, and in logic it can mean not.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- TILDE OPERATOR
- Also called
- Varies with (proportional to), Difference between, Similar to, Not, Cycle, APL tilde
- Type
- Maths symbol
- Unicode block
- Mathematical Operators
- Unicode group
- Relations
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
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