EPSILON
\ˈɛpsɪlən], \ˈɛpsɪlən], \ˈɛ_p_s_ɪ_l_ə_n]\
Definitions of EPSILON
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A macro language with high level featuresincluding strings and lists, developed by A.P. Ershov atNovosibirsk in 1967. EPSILON was used to implement ALGOL 68on the M-220.["Application of the Machine-Oriented Language Epsilon toSoftware Development", I.V. Pottosin et al, in MachineOriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel, N-H 1974,pp. 417-434].
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1. The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet.2. (From the Hungarian mathematician PaulErdos) A very small, insignificant, or negligible quantity ofsomething.The use of epsilon is from the epsilon-delta method ofproof in differential calculus.
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