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Is there anyway to write the pi symbol on the forums?

 

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Actually a double capital T works pretty well.

 

[ezzy85]

wouldnt that take as much effort as just saying "pi"?

 

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No.

 

[ezzy85]

fair enough

 

[Archman]

π π π π π

whichever font u prefer...

 

[Grey Council]

*goggles at Archman*
wtf

type in DETAIL how you did that.

-.-

 

[Grey Council]

ahem

How do you PUT the pi charachter in the first place?
humph

 

[Xayma]

Theres lots of ways, first of all you could use character map.

Or HTML which has too ways. either &(Name); or &#(Number);

http://www.webreference.com/html/reference/character/symbols.html

The useful list to remember (at least partially) would probably be (case sensitive, especially for the greek letters):
pi (π ), theta (θ ), fnof (ƒ ), sum (∑ ), radic (√ ), infin (∞ ), ang (∠ ), int (∫ ), there4 (∴ ), ne (≠ ), equiv (≡ ), le (≤ ), ge (≥ ), perp (⊥ ), plusmn (± ), deg (° )

 

[Affinity]

wonder if there's a markup language for maths around the web..

 

[Sober]

wonder if there's a markup language for maths around the web..

There is a system called latex that some forums use that lets you write things like:

[math]\sin x = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{(-1)^nx^{2n+1}}{(2n+1)!}[/math]

And will produce an image like the one attatched. I would hope these forums start using it some time because it is free and shouldn't be too hard to install.

 

[buchanan]

Html code is OK for some small mathematical expressions, but for big ones it's much better to use latex.

The nature of the Extension 2 forums are such that big ones are often needed. So clearly there is a need for a latex renderer on the Extension 2 forum.

It's great to see there's a latex renderer on the boredofstudies new wiki. But that's just the wiki. Will we get the latex renderer on the forums as well?

 

[Continuum]

There is a system called latex that some forums use that lets you write things like:

[math]\sin x = \sum_{n=0}^\infty \frac{(-1)^nx^{2n+1}}{(2n+1)!}[/math]

And will produce an image like the one attatched. I would hope these forums start using it some time because it is free and shouldn't be too hard to install.

Hell yeah, we need LaTeX.

There's websites out there that do this and produce an image that you can upload, but having it integrated with BOS is a god-send.

 

[Dumsum]

Lazurus is working on a LaTeX solution and has set up a temporary implementation using CodeCogs' script.

Use [ maths ] [ /maths ] (without spaces).

eg:

[maths]\int\frac{1}{x}\,dx = \ln{x}+C.[/maths]

AMS have a very good introduction to LaTeX.