Notation conventions

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This page contains preferred notation conventions for mathematical formulas used in pages of this wiki:

	\mathrm{}	Designators are denoted with non-italic, non-bold roman characteracters (for example, cv may indicate variable cost, while cv suggests cost item v).
	\mathit{}	Scalar variables are indicated with italics.
	\mathbf{}	Vectors are indicated with lower case boldface.
	\mathbf{}	Matrices are indicated with upper case boldface.
	\mathcal{}	Sets are indicated with upper case calligraphy script.
	\mathbb{}	Special sets, such as the set of real numbers or the set of integers, are indicated with upper case blackboard-bold font.

DDWiki is built on MediaWiki (the same base as Wikipedia), and it uses a subset of TeX markup (including some extensions from LaTeX), for writing mathematical expressions. The Wikipedia site has a list of examples for how to create a variety of symbols and fonts.