Re: [libreoffice-users] Function names with primes

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.
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