Re: Is zero even or odd?
From: Michael Mendelsohn (invalid_at_msgid.michael.mendelsohn.de)
Date: 12/22/04
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:23:58 +0100
John Woodgate schrieb:
> I read in sci.electronics.design that Nicholas O. Lindan <see@sig.com>
>
> >Slightly OT, is there an accepted ASCII-gram for square root?
>
> I've seen v/(x) used; it's fairly evident what it means. I just found
> that decimal 175 is an 'overscore' character, ¯, which means that v/¯(x)
> could be used.
I suggest
²v¯(a+b) = v¯(a+b) = (a+b)^(1/2) = (a+b)^½ = sqrt(a+b)
³v¯(a+b) = (a+b)^(1/3)
The ASCII-grams have the worst readability of the bunch, IMO.
Cheers
Michael
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