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Is there a let quantifier in LATEX? (It looks like \exists, but without a middle stick)

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  • \usepackage{ amssymb }\sqsupset. Have a look at “How to look up a symbol?” for ideas how you can easily find a particular symbol.
    – BambOo
    Sep 23, 2019 at 19:48
  • I tried this symbol, but it's lower and longer than \exists
    – WOODKEEPER
    Sep 23, 2019 at 19:51
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    I never heard of that mathematical notation, could you show an example so that we can see ?
    – BambOo
    Sep 23, 2019 at 19:55
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    I have not seen that notation and there is no Unicode character with "let" (with a mathematical meaning) in its name. Can you link to a pdf where this is used so we can see what font character it is? Sep 23, 2019 at 20:09

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Here is a (humble) possibility using tikz. It won't resist scaling though

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz,amstext}
\newlength{\tempheight}
\newcommand{\Let}[0]{%
\mathbin{\text{\settoheight{\tempheight}{\mathstrut}\raisebox{0.5\pgflinewidth}{%
\tikz[baseline,line cap=round,line join=round] \draw (0,0) --++ (0.4em,0) --++ (0,1.5ex) --++ (-0.4em,0);%
}}}}
\begin{document}
$\Let\exists\alpha\beta\gamma$
\end{document} 

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I used that quantor during my stury in Saint-Petersburg State University, and I wonder, if that sign being used in other places. Searched for it several times, found an old FIDO mail with DIY-version:

\documentclass{standalone}
\def\letus{%
    \mathord{\setbox0=\hbox{$\exists$}%
             \hbox{\kern 0.125\wd0%
                   \vbox to \ht0{%
                      \hrule width 0.75\wd0%
                      \vfill%
                      \hrule width 0.75\wd0}%
                   \vrule height \ht0%
                   \kern 0.125\wd0}%
           }%
}
\begin{document}
$\letus$
\end{document}
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The closest symbol in Unicode is ⊐ (U+2290), the Square Original Of. Since this is a relational operator, you would want to change its spacing to

\newcommand\letsymbol{\mathord{\sqsupset}}

This works with numerous packages, including unicode-math, amssymb and latexsym.

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