[OS X TeX] Latex symbol for "define equal"

[R Martinez]

I believe that Don Knuth favors using the plain equals sign = for everything including definitions. I read it somewhere but can’t recall the source. One bit of evidence is that in his book “Concrete Mathematics” the floor and ceiling functions are defined using the equals sign (1989 edition, page. 67).

Raul Martinez

> On Aug 19, 2018, at 3:28 AM, Vic Norton <vic at norton.name> wrote:
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>> On Aug 18, 2018, at 10:01 PM, Art Werschulz <agw at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> The centercolon and mathtools LaTeX packages are used to fix symmetry issues with := .
> 
> In Pascal and Algol := is the assignment operator. The phrase x := 2 means “set x equal to 2". I personally would avoid using := for any other purpose in LaTeX.
> —
> Vic
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