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From: Florian Pesth
Subject: Re: What is the name of this mathematical symbol?
Date: 9 Apr 2002 11:38:24
Message: <3cb30af0@news.povray.org>
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> __________
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> /_________
Big Sigma
Florian
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From: Florian Pesth
Subject: Re: What is the name of this mathematical symbol?
Date: 9 Apr 2002 11:40:13
Message: <3cb30b5d@news.povray.org>
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> Sum? (well, that's what it does in Excel) - iirc it's called sigma.
;-) not only in Excel
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"Florian Pesth" <fpe### [at] web de> wrote in message
news:3cb30b5d@news.povray.org...
> > Sum? (well, that's what it does in Excel) - iirc it's called sigma.
> ;-) not only in Excel
Newsflash - MS fail to break standard....
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From: Florian Pesth
Subject: Re: What is the name of this mathematical symbol?
Date: 9 Apr 2002 11:42:55
Message: <3cb30bff@news.povray.org>
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> > Sum? (well, that's what it does in Excel) - iirc it's called sigma.
> ;-) not only in Excel
Oh, btw for a product you use a big pi:
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From: Florian Pesth
Subject: Re: What is the name of this mathematical symbol?
Date: 9 Apr 2002 11:45:26
Message: <3cb30c96$1@news.povray.org>
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> Newsflash - MS fail to break standard....
:) MS didn't invent mathematics.
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From: Shay
Subject: Re: What is the name of this mathematical symbol?
Date: 9 Apr 2002 12:20:12
Message: <3cb314bc@news.povray.org>
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Thanks for the help, guys. What does it mean when it has numbers above and
or below it?
Shay <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote in message
news:3cb30962$1@news.povray.org...
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From: Florian Pesth
Subject: Re: What is the name of this mathematical symbol?
Date: 9 Apr 2002 12:28:16
Message: <3cb316a0@news.povray.org>
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> Thanks for the help, guys. What does it mean when it has numbers above and
> or below it?
This are the limits of the running index.
Example:
5
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\ i = 1+2+3+4+5 = 15
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i=1
Best regards,
Florian
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"Shay" <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote in message news:3cb314bc@news.povray.org...
> Thanks for the help, guys. What does it mean when it has numbers above and
> or below it?
>
> Shay <sah### [at] simcopartscom> wrote in message
> news:3cb30962$1@news.povray.org...
>
Add a series of numbers....
iirc
1
(theta) A
50
means the sum of A[1] to A[50]
Try: http://www.karlscalculus.org/notation.html
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From: Florian Pesth
Subject: Re: What is the name of this mathematical symbol?
Date: 9 Apr 2002 12:37:23
Message: <3cb318c3$1@news.povray.org>
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> Try: http://www.karlscalculus.org/notation.html
Hmm, I don't understand the problem. I would use LaTeX and then use
LaTeX2HTML conversion tool to get mathematical texts on the web. What is
this web page about?
Florian
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On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:21:19 -0500, Shay wrote:
> Thanks for the help, guys. What does it mean when it has numbers above and
> or below it?
It means it's dead complicated so just skip over to the next question.
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#local i=.1;#local I=(i/i)/i;#local l=(i+i)/i;#local ll=(I/i)/l;box{<-ll,
-((I/I)+l),-ll><ll,-l,ll>pigment{checker scale l}finish{ambient((I/l)/I)+
(l/I)}}sphere{<i-i,l-l,(I/l)>l/l pigment{rgb((I/l)/I)}finish{reflection((
I/l)/I)-(l/I)specular(I/l)/I}}light_source{<I-l,I+I,(I-l)/l>l/l} // Steve
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