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There is a conflict of use for one mathematical symbol in my technical document that is defining two different quantities.

Due to time constraint I can not edit the document now. What are the possible ways to let the reader of my document know that depending on the context that symbol be understood accordingly.

I have a List of Symbols in my document too. Is it O.K to mention this conflict there? Or any other recommendations please.

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    What symbol are you using, and what are its two uses? – Joshua Wang Apr 26 '21 at 17:31
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    Are you sure you can't just put a subscript or something to indicate two different variables? – Joshua Wang Apr 26 '21 at 17:32
  • symbol is $N$. It is used to represent both dimension of vector and as a Noise variable.

    Defining with subscript is a great idea but for noise variable scripting is used BUT it is also used to define the noise vector without subscript.

    Whereas to define the dimension of a vector there is no subscription in my document.

     – kaka Apr 26 '21 at 17:38

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I personally would suggest using d as the dimension of the vector as it's very frequently used in theory books and shouldn't "shock" the Physics student/professor (i guees your target?) reading ur article. Moreover in any books i read there usually is a "legenda" at the end describing all symbol's used meaning (at least in Math's ones) I hope it helps! :)

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