Re: Confused by symbol in equation

From: Robert Israel (israel_at_math.ubc.ca)
Date: 07/23/04 

Date: 23 Jul 2004 19:24:07 GMT

In article <0he2g0940bp1de0tcmncq4jc7r5la1l59h@4ax.com>,
Paul Burridge <pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote:

>Do you guys use a binary group to post equations to that I could scan
>and post mine to? I find the limititions of ASCII too much to cope
>with!

No, we don't. We mostly use pseudo-TeX notation (e.g. ^ for superscript
and _ for subscript). BTW, please don't send questions such as this to
sci.math.symbolic, which is for discussions about computer algebra
systems, not symbols in mathematics.

Robert Israel israel@math.ubc.ca
Department of Mathematics http://www.math.ubc.ca/~israel
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2