Re: Math expression standard
From: David C. Ullrich (ullrich_at_math.okstate.edu)
Date: 09/16/04
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 06:27:02 -0500
On 15 Sep 2004 19:47:32 GMT, rusin@vesuvius.math.niu.edu (Dave Rusin)
wrote:
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>(Some people write sin^{-1} for arcsin, and some write it for 1/{sin})
Who does the second? I don't think I've ever seen this. (Always felt
that the clash between sin^2 and sin^{-1} was a bad bad thing - if
there exist people of the sort you claim exist then it's even worse.)
>>cosxy
>
>I think I have seen Microsoft Word interpret "cosine" as "cos(ine)" by
Heh-heh. Curiously I'm willing to just believe you on _that_ one.
>putting the "ine" in italics but recognizing that "cos" needs to be
>in a roman font. And of course cos2x=cosx2=2cosx, right?
>
>There is such a thing as having too many delimiters (parentheses etc.)
>especially if you're trying to communicate with humans as opposed to
>computers. But you're just inviting trouble if you use too few (and don't
>even leave spaces to separate unlike things).
>
>dave
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