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dengtsy

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Registered: 2008-01-03

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Latex asymptotic

I don't know how to type this in Latex to express something asymptoticly belong to a normal distribution as in the image.

Please help.

JaneFairfax

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Registered: 2007-02-23

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Re: Latex asymptotic

You can try \thicksim for the tilde ~:

dengtsy

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Registered: 2008-01-03

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Re: Latex asymptotic

Thank you very much.

Could please tell me more about the syntax of this
\thicksim\!\!\!\!\!\!\!^{{}^{\textrm{asy}}}

And what packages are required?

luca-deltodesco

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Registered: 2006-05-05

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Re: Latex asymptotic

im not sure about packages. all the \! are to push the line backwards, and the extra ^ to raise it up so that rather than it looking like this:

you get this with the extra raise

and then with all the \!

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dengtsy

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Re: Latex asymptotic

Thanks