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5 Sep 2024 05:19:37 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Iterated derivatives  
From: Darren New
Date: 16 Nov 2009 11:41:08
Message: <4b0180a4$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> But the second one? Now do you 
> suppose that's the arcsine of x? Or the reciprocol of the sine of x?

That's exactly my point.

> if it does, it *probably* means the natural logarithm. 

Well, that makes sense, yes.

> Doomed, DOOMED, WE'RE ALL DOOMED! >_<

I asked an exchange professor from Greece once, and he said they use the 
same capital-sigma notation for summation and delta-for-change and such that 
we use in America, except all their variables are also greek letters. *That* 
must suck. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".


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