These symbols are in the Word 2010:  Then how should I find them for LaTeX ?
I know what my symbol or character looks like, but I don't know what the command is or which math alphabet it came from. How do I go about finding this out?
I tried to use xrandr to set 1680x1050 as a new mode to VGA output, but it says:  sudo xrandr --addmode VGA-0 1680 X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) Major opcode of failed request:  140 (RANDR) Minor opcode of failed request:  18 (RRAddOutputMode) Serial number of failed request:  35 Current serial number in output stream:  36 Update: Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock I am running the upgrade(12.10 to 13.04) through terminal and it keeps getting stuck at this:  Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock   What do I do? I have root access. I have no idea what else to try other than a clean install.  Checking package manager Reading package lists... Done     Building dependency tree           Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done   Calculating the changes Calculating the changes  Do you want to start the upgrade?   3 packages are going to be removed. 155 new packages are going to be  installed. 1204 packages are going to be upgraded.   You have to download a total of 595 M. This download will take about  1 hour 15 minutes with a 1Mbit DSL connection and about 23 hours with  a 56k modem.   Fetching and installing the upgrade can take several hours. Once the  download has finished, the process cannot be canceled.    Continue [yN]  Details [d]y  Fetching  Could not download the upgrades   The upgrade has aborted. Please check your Internet connection or  installation media and try again. All files downloaded so far have  been kept.   Failed to lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock    Restoring original system state  Aborting Reading package lists... Done     Building dependency tree           Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done  root@chaitanya-XPS-Ubuntu:~# Why is a geometric progression called so? Just curious about why geometric progression is called so. Is it related to geometry? Limit of $\frac{\log(n!)}{n\log(n)}$ as $n\to\infty$. I can't seem to find a good way to solve this.  I tried using L'Hopitals, but the derivative of $\log(n!)$ is really ugly. I know that the answer is 1, but I do not know why the answer is one.  Any simple way to go about this? Suppose I have a paper with the following text:     Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you [3],[4].   As one can see, the author got the information from two other references. If I want to add this information in my thesis, do I also have to reference [3] and [4] or can I just reference this particular paper, I got the information from? How to calculate Area Under the Curve (AUC), or the c-statistic, by hand I am interested in calculating area under the curve (AUC), or the c-statistic, by hand for a binary logistic regression model.  For example, in the validation dataset, I have the true value for the dependent variable, retention (1 = retained; 0 = not retained), as well as a predicted retention status for each observation generated by my regression analysis using a model that was built using the training set (this will range from 0 to 1).  My initial thoughts were to identify the "correct" number of model classifications and simply divide the number of "correct" observations by the number of total observations to calculate the c-statistic. By "correct", if the true retention status of an observation = 1 and the predicted retention status is > 0.5 then that is a "correct" classification. Additionally, if the true retention status of an observation = 0 and the predicted retention status is &lt; 0.5 then that is also a "correct" classification. I assume a "tie" would occur when the predicted value = 0.5, but that phenomenon does not occur in my validation dataset. On the other hand, "incorrect" classifications would be if the true retention status of an observation = 1 and the predicted retention status is &lt; 0.5 or if the true retention status for an outcome = 0 and the predicted retention status is > 0.5. I am aware of TP, FP, FN, TN, but not aware of how to calculate the c-statistic given this information. How do I fill a shape with text, like a circle? How do I confine text within a shape such as a circle or triangle?  I don't want text along the perimeter, I would like it to break appropriately at all the inner edges. My interest in Blender comes from wanting to use it to model physical structures and produce architectural drawings; what I have so far is really impressive, but there doesn't seem to be too much information about my particular interest.   Are there any (Blender-) resources that would be particularly useful for architects? E.g. packages of standard 'elements' like windows, doors, roofs or whatever, or perhaps a discussion group specifically for architects? Showing that $\mathbb{R}$ is connected So I know that $\mathbb{R}$ is both open and closed. But given a set, $X\subset \mathbb{R}$, $X\ne \emptyset $ that is both open and closed, how does one show that $X=\mathbb{R}$?    Here is my attempt: Using the definitions I was given, $X$ open implies that for every $x\in X$ there is a $\delta \gt 0$, $(x-\delta,~ x+\delta)\subset X$.    Also, since $X$ is closed , $B=\mathbb{R}$\  $X$ is open.    However, I don't know how to proceed. NB: This is not a homework problem. How to reduce fireflies in Cycles? I often use Cycles' built in Glass BSDF shader to achieve realistic refraction effects, but in many cases, it seems that Cycles' glass caustics creates an unfortunately large number of fireflies (pixels that are abnormally bright relative to their surroundings). In some models of mine, even when I render for 3000 or more samples/pixel, my final image is still covered in fireflies. While I can improve this in many cases by increasing the total amount of light available in the scene, this loses a lot of the potency of the refractive effects I'm looking for, especially in scenes with low light levels.  So my question is, how can I reduce the amount of fireflies while using Cycles' caustics without sacrificing the quality of the refractive effects?  Note: I am aware that Cycles' caustics will perform much better once Cycles has full support for bidirectional path-tracing, but it looks unlikely that that will become , unfortunately. Why the sudden fascination with tensors? I've noticed lately that a lot of people are developing tensor equivalents of many methods (tensor factorization, tensor kernels, tensors for topic modeling, etc) I'm wondering, why is the world suddenly fascinated with tensors? Are there recent papers/ standard results that are particularly surprising, that brought about this? Is it computationally a lot cheaper than previously suspected?  I'm not being glib, I sincerely am interested, and if there are any pointers to papers about this, I'd love to read them. How to space columns evenly in a table with multicolumns? Before, the concept of imaginary numbers, the number $i = \sqrt{-1}$ was shown to have no solution among the numbers that we had. So we declared $i$ to be a new type of number. How come we don't do the same for other "impossible" equations, such as $x = x + 1$, or $x = 1/0$?  Edit: OK, a lot of people have said that a number $x$ such that $x = x + 1$ would break the rule that $0 \neq 1$. However, let's look at the extension from whole numbers to include negative numbers (yes, I said that I wasn't going to include this) by defining $-1$ to be the number such that $-1 + 1 = 0$. Note that this breaks the "rule" that "if $x \leq y$, then $ax \leq ay$", which was true for all $a, x, y$ before the introduction of negative numbers. So I'm not convinced that "That would break some obvious truth about all numbers" is necessarily an argument against this sort of thing. How do I scale the enormously sized desktop icons on Ubuntu 18.04? One of the options offered when you right click the desktop or within a Nautilus window is "wipe available diskspace." I'd think that means all unused diskspace but assumptions can be dangerous. I don't want to try it only to find out that available meant "all". I can't remember seeing this option before 12.04.  I was asked to provide an image but unfortunately when right clicking to get the drop down menu, the print screen function doesn't respond thereby making an image impossible.  It appears that no responder so far has actually used this nautilus option. Jorge suggested that the feature was actually nautilus-wipe and I verified that is the case by removing nautilus-wipe and seeing that the menu option is now gone. Documentation for nautilus-wipe is almost non-existent and what little I found was superficial and contradictory. This doesn't leave me with a warm and fuzzy feeling regarding my using an application or feature that purports to "wipe disk" without a clear definition of what is wiped. How can I fix a mistake I made on my income tax filing? [US] How can I fix a mistake I made on my income tax filing? How can I do case insensitive string comparison in Python?  I would like to encapsulate comparison of a regular strings to a repository string using in a very simple and Pythonic way. I also would like to have ability to look up values in a dict hashed by strings using regular python strings. How to truncate milliseconds off of a .NET DateTime How do I create bookmarks with pdfLaTeX? I'm using MiKTeX and using pdfLaTeX. I can generate the PDF, but there are no bookmarks. In the .tex-file it is using:  \chapter \section \subsection   (with labels)  I originally used make with sphinx to output LaTeX. It must work somewhat or I wouldn't get the PDF. When I say bookmarks, I mean when you are in Acrobat and the left side has the Bookmarks panel.  I am reading   But I am not sure where to apply this.  EDIT:  I applied this, \usepackage{bookmark}, and got bookmarks, but I never get the subsection bookmarks. The real fastest gun in the west Are the questions in the about page taken from real posts? If not, who designs them?  Particularly, why does this specific answer have a date from before the question was asked?