[thelist] wordperfect docs with math formulas on the web

rudy r937 at interlog.com
Thu Aug 30 10:40:34 CDT 2001


> although there's probably another much easier way that 
> someone is going to post about in the next 5 mins :-)

hi jon

hey, i waited, really i did

dunno if it's easier, but one way i've seen it done is with gifs 
for the formulae

that don't work for aural browsers, unless you load up the
alt text with some kind of the text equivalent of the formulae

actually, a pure text approach might do, but you'd need a
mathematician to proofread the results

for simple formulae, there are notational conventions that 
could be used, e.g. e=lim[n->inf](1+1/n)**n

for more complex stuff, perhaps simple words would suffice, 
e.g. 

   e is the limit, as n approaches infinity, of 
       the nth power of the sum of 1 and 1/n

at least with gifs you can delegate the task to a rookie -- 
print, scan, cut, paste, optimize palette, save as

and if the only person you can delegate to is yourself,
then at least the task is fairly straightforward and requires
little in the way of thinking while you're at it, as long as
there aren't literally hundreds of them...


rudy

p.s. it helps to see the series to understand this definition
of e (above), also known as euler's number  --
   
   (1 + 1/1)**1 = 2
   (1 + 1/2)**2 = 2.25
   (1 + 1/3)**3 = 2.37037...
   (1 + 1/4)**4 = 2.44140...
   ...
   (1 + 1/64)**64= 2.69734


e to 1000 decimal places --

  http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/e.html






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