On Sunday, 22 October 2017 at 14:20:20 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
.. i thought it should be (2 ^^ 1) ^^ 2 = 4
Imagine 2^^10^^10^^7. It's a big number, isn't? (up-up-and up)
Where would you start from?
On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 00:14:15 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
For an argument, the TEX command "^" accepts either a single
character or a bracket-enclosed string of arbitrary length. So
$3^3^3$ indeed transforms to ${3^3}^3$, but not for some deeper
reason this time.
On my TeX
On Thursday, 26 October 2017 at 10:02:54 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
On Sunday, 22 October 2017 at 22:28:48 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
Yeah, and a height-3 tower $a^{b^c}$ (TEX notation)
Is $a^{b^c}$ the same as ${a^b}^c$ ? They are drawn slightly
differently, so I suppose it's ambiguous indeed.
On Sunday, 22 October 2017 at 22:28:48 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
Yeah, and a height-3 tower $a^{b^c}$ (TEX notation)
Is $a^{b^c}$ the same as ${a^b}^c$ ? They are drawn slightly
differently, so I suppose it's ambiguous indeed.
On Sunday, 22 October 2017 at 22:28:48 UTC, Ivan Kazmenko wrote:
Yeah, and a height-3 tower $a^{b^c}$ (TEX notation) actually
means "a to the power of (b to the power of c)", not the other
way around.
Because you have explicit braces there.
Math doesn't have precedence for exponentiation
On Sunday, 22 October 2017 at 14:44:04 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 22.10.2017 16:20, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
.. i thought it should be (2 ^^ 1) ^^ 2 = 4
2 ^^ (1 ^^ 2) == 2
It is standard for ^/**/^^ to be right-associative. (This is
also the standard convention in mathematics.)
Yeah, and a
On Sunday, 22 October 2017 at 14:44:04 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
On 22.10.2017 16:20, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
.. i thought it should be (2 ^^ 1) ^^ 2 = 4
2 ^^ (1 ^^ 2) == 2
It is standard for ^/**/^^ to be right-associative. (This is
also the standard convention in mathematics.)
true
On 22.10.2017 16:20, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote:
.. i thought it should be (2 ^^ 1) ^^ 2 = 4
2 ^^ (1 ^^ 2) == 2
It is standard for ^/**/^^ to be right-associative. (This is also the
standard convention in mathematics.)