Multiple usagesIn more complicated usage, 

 can appear in different places in an equation, even several times on each side. For example, the following are true for 

The meaning of such statements is as follows: for ''any'' functions which satisfy each 

 on the left side, there are ''some'' functions satisfying each 

 on the right side, such that substituting all these functions into the equation makes the two sides equal. For example, the third equation above means: "For any function 

 there is some function 

 such that 

" In terms of the "set notation" above, the meaning is that the class of functions represented by the left side is a subset of the class of functions represented by the right side. In this use the "=" is a formal symbol that unlike the usual use of "=" is not a [[symmetric relation]]. Thus for example 

 does not imply the false statement 
