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Re: Re: Primed Symbols in Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg93756] Re: [mg93750] Re: Primed Symbols in Mathematica
• From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
• Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:15:46 -0500 (EST)
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But WRI could provide us with some OTHER characters that could be used for
primes and doubleprimes.


David Park
djmpark at comcast.net
http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark 


From: mark mcclure [mailto:mcmcclur at unca.edu] 


On Nov 24, 4:07 am, "David Park" <djmp... at comcast.net> wrote:
> Notice that if you type
>
> x\[Prime]   or x\[DoublePrime]
>
> into Mathematica you obtain a perfectly good Symbol that can
> be used in any Mathematica expression. And you could use any
> other leading character(s) instead of x. The only trouble is
> that the Prime and DoublePrime sit at too low a level and
> therefore this does not look good.

These symbols are meant to be used as superscripts.  At least,
that was the convention used by MiER and TMJ.

Mark McClure