Re: [libreoffice-users] Function names with primes

Thank you all for answering me.
It helped a lot, Americans or not :-).

Kolbjoern

Den 19.04.2015 21:29, Brian Barker skreiv:
> 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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