Special Cases
The Kronecker delta notation is a specific case of Iverson notation when the condition is equality. That is,
The indicator function, another specific case, has set membership as its condition:
The sign function and Heaviside step function are also easily expressed in this notation:
And the trichotomy of the reals can be expressed:
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