to speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect - parker we use the following convention for symbolsunless the surrounding text specifies otherwisea -dimensional array linked list or doubly linked list set tree graph set of vertices of graph set of edges of graph symbolism meaning (dk- ) radix- representation of numbere ( ) logb logarithm of to the base bif is not specifiedb |scardinality of set \ set differencei sometimes written as |xabsolute value of bxc greatest integer less than or equal to dxe smallest integer greater than or equal to ha an- (kf (ksequence of elements sum of all (ksuch that relation (kis true minr(kf (kminimum of all (ksuch that relation (kis true maxr(kf (kpb = (kmaximum of all (ksuch that relation (kis true shorthand for <= <= ( { ( )set of all such that the relation (atrue [lrclosed interval{ < < [lrleft-closedright-open interval{ < {abwell-defined collection of elementsi set ai or [ithe ith element of one-dimensional array [ijsubarray of one-dimensional array consisting of elements at indices to inclusive [ ][jthe element in ith row and jth column of array