Here is the Notation appendix from my LA book https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/notation_appendix.pdf https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/notation

Here is the Notation appendix from my LA book https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/notation_appendix.pdf https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/notation_appendix.... for your reference, and another excerpt with basic info about about using set notation https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/set_notation.pdf https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/set_notation.pdf If you plan to read the book by Guruswami, Rudra1, and Sudan you should consult their notation: https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/book/web-coding-book.pdf#page=343 https://cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/atri/courses/coding-theory/b... For most types of symbols you can figure out what they mean intuitively, but these two are really important, and not obvious at all: (n,k,d) ≝ code with block length n, dimension k, distance d [n,k,d] ≝ a linear code with block length n, dimension k, distance d