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1.                 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   EPSILON
      <language> A macro language with high level features
      including strings and lists, developed by A.P. Ershov at
      Novosibirsk in 1967.  EPSILON was used to implement ALGOL 68
      on the M-220.
      ["Application of the Machine-Oriented Language Epsilon to
      Software Development", I.V. Pottosin et al, in Machine
      Oriented Higher Level Languages, W. van der Poel, N-H 1974,
      pp. 417-434].
      [Jargon File]
      (1995-05-10)
   
                   
                 

2.                 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   epsilon
   within epsilon of
      1. <character> The fifth letter of the Greek alphabet.
      2. <mathematics> (From the Hungarian mathematician Paul
    Erdos) A very small, insignificant, or negligible quantity of
      something.
      The use of epsilon is from the epsilon-delta method of
      proof in differential calculus.
      (2001-07-06)