Re: [libreoffice-users] Function names with primes

At 20:46 19/04/2015 +0200, 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?

Something like a single quotation mark or 
apostrophe - but different. See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_%28symbol%29 . 
It's Unicode 2032 and HTML ′ .

> How and for what are they used?

I don't know about schools, but mathematicians 
use them to indicate derivatives, so f'(x) is shorthand for df(x)/dx.

> Some Americans (or others) able to explain this to a non American?

Sorry: I'm only an "other".

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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