Symbol
- The iota symbol is used to generate a vector of consecutive integers in the programming language APL.
- The name "iota" denotes a pseudo-constant to represent successive integers in the Go programming language.
- The lowercase iota symbol is sometimes used to write the imaginary unit, but more often Roman i or j is used.
- In logic, the lowercase iota denotes the definite descriptor.
- The lowercase iota symbol has Unicode code point U+03B9 and the uppercase U+0399.
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