Re: Variable names in Mathematica
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- Subject: [mg92090] Re: Variable names in Mathematica
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:55:47 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
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Murray Eisenberg wrote: > NO, they are NOT reserved. Example (converted to InputForm, which I'd > never use when actually entering Greek letters > > \[Alpha]=2; > \[Alpha]+10 > 12 > > Perhaps you're confusing some Greek letters with similarly-shaped > symbols, such as the Element symbol or the Sum symbol. > Maybe confusing \[Alpha] with \[Proportional]? Use ESC a ESC to type alpha.
- References:
- Variable names in Mathematica
- From: amannuc1 <Anthony.J.Mannucci@jpl.nasa.gov>
- Variable names in Mathematica