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A grey system is described with grey numbers, grey sequences, grey equations, or matrices. Here, grey numbers are the elementary “atoms” or “cells”, and their exact values are unknown. In applications, a grey number stands for an indeterminate number that takes its possible value within an interval or a general set of numbers. A grey number is generally represented using the symbol “⊗”. There are several types of grey numbers, as discussed below.
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Liu, S., Yang, Y., Forrest, J. (2017). Grey Numbers and Their Operations. In: Grey Data Analysis . Computational Risk Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1841-1_3
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