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- From: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Electronic math notation
- Message-ID: <92323@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 9 Oct 92 15:31:10 GMT
- References: <1992Oct9.050056.28501@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Oct9.094353.23555@rcvie.co.at>
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- Reply-To: weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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- In-reply-to: se_karne@rcvie.co.at (Georg Karner)
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- In article <1992Oct9.094353.23555@rcvie.co.at>, se_karne@rcvie (Georg Karner) writes:
- >If you use TeX notation, probably most people on the net will understand
- >you.
-
- Yes, but TeX notation is clumsy for many quick postings. I'd like to push
- for things like xi obviously being x_i, and I like the j=i+1 convention,
- meaning if a j appears out of nowhere in an ASCII environment, it means
- i+1, and similar ideas. Someone should be able to define the Fibbonaci
- sequence as "F0=0, Fk=Fi+Fj" instead of "F_0=0, F_{i+2}=F_{i+1}+F_i. And
- I sometimes use # or @ as stand-ins for Greek letters.
- --
- -Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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