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BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL

PlusMinus

PlusMinus[x]
displays as ±x.

PlusMinus[x, y, ...]
displays as .

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PlusMinus[x, y] is formatted using the (\[PlusMinus]) operator character.

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This is now interpreted as an interval:

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