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Here’s how to easily find symbols in LaTeX.
Okay the most handiness (is that really a word?) little web app that I’ve come across since starting work in $\LaTeX$ is this little tool found here.
http://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html
$\text{detextify}^2$ has seriously saved me hours of my life.
This beautiful app lets you draw any symbol into a box, then it will return the corresponding $\LaTeX$ command. So freakin’ handy! And it works. That obscure symbol you saw in some paper $\zeta$, and you can’t think of the Greek name of the top of your head? Simple! Just draw it in and bam, $\text{detextify}^2$ throws the command back (\zeta in case you are wondering).
I use this all the time when I’m writing anything sort of equations in LaTeX. A definite must know about.
Hope this saves you countless sleepless nights.