Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote: > In "Getting started with Math" I found this: "To write function names > with primes, as is usual in school notations, you must first add the > signs to the catalog". (The catalog is a list of characters in a font). > What are "primes" in this context? > How and for what are they used? > > Some Americans (or others) able to explain this to a non American? > Kolbjoern
A prime is the symbol ' or also written as ′ or ’ so in school math you often has variables x and x' or even x'' or x''' These are called x prime x double prime or x triple prime. for example x' = 2x. x'' = x' + y. -- Piet van Oostrum <[email protected]> WWW: http://pietvanoostrum.com/ PGP key: [8DAE142BE17999C4] -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
