Re: Notation for partial derivatives

On Mar 17, 9:41 pm, Gerry Myerson <ge...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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 Mapsread <cw_...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Greetings,

When typing (and thus not able to use a "backwards-6"), how does one
write the partial derivative of T with respect to x, y and z? How
about the second derivatives?

Are (f_T(x), f_T(y), f_T(z)) and (f_2T(x), f_2T(y), f_2T(z))
acceptable? Or is it (f_x(T), f_y(T), f_z(T))?

Thanks!

If T = T(x, y, z) is a function of x, y, and z,
you could write T_x or T_x(x, y, z)
for the partial derivative of T with respect to x.

Some folks write @T/@x but I don't particularly like it.

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Thanks everybody.
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