Tuesday, November 13, 2012

[ujtdupzg] Mathematical notation for inverse exponentiation

Mathematics notation for the nth root of x, where n is a complicated expression, is kind of awkward looking, trying to get the large expression to fit within the crook of the radical.  Also logarithm base n, especially where n contains superscripts.  They both rely on being able to typeset with a smaller font.

Both of these happen to be the inverses of exponentiation.  Instead, I think we need operators like ^ with precedence and associativity defined.

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