On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 04:09:24PM -0400, John Mikes wrote:
> Brent to your 1-22 post:
> what trapped me was a negligent way of writing. JCK wrote it right, you
> repeated it nonchallantly (leaving out the empty space):
> 2^74207281-1 (instead of correctly: (2^74207281 -1)
> what really included the (-1) into the wxponent rather than into the RESULT
> of the raised big number.
> JM
>
The unofficial convention on plain text email notation is that of
LaTeX, so one would have to write 2^{74207281-1} if you wanted to
include the -1 in the exponent.
There is no distinction between 2^74207281-1 and 2^74207281 -1 in
LaTeX.
Of course, the LaTeX convention is unofficial, and not everyone
understands it, so the envitable misunderstandings and hilarity ensue!
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