From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: sqrt
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:48:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36290289.F7C7A47C@wxs.nl> (raw)
Hi Tobias,
I've been giving this \sqrt some thinking.
(1) I think \root ... \of ... is not that bad at all. It follows the
flow of thinking.
(2) \sqrt is a plain tex macro, which we cannot simply redefine.
(3) Personally I always think of sqrt as being the root 2 of something,
and therefore \sqrt[x]{} is (correct me if I'm wrong) a rather strange
one.
On the other hand, I like the idea of a more verbose syntax. Maybe Taco
has some ideas on this, especially when we look at math ML and the
possibility to map tex on MML vise vera.
Hans
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-17 20:48 Hans Hagen [this message]
1998-10-18 15:39 sqrt Tobias Burnus
1998-10-19 8:09 sqrt Taco Hoekwater
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