Encountering Problems with Near Vision after 40. If you have never needed eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct distance vision, then experiencing near vision problems after age 40 can be concerning and frustrating. You may feel like you've abruptly lost the ability to read the newspaper or see the cell phone numbers.
A system of symbols used to represent special things. Example: In mathematical notation â means infinity.
For example, the sum (k/2)+(k/4)+(k/8)+...(k/2^n) is asymptotically equal to k. Unfortunately no consistent notation is used throughout mathematics and some texts will use â to mean approximately equal and ~ to mean asymptotically equal whereas other texts use the symbols the other way around.