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Scientific Notation?mickyd wrote:How'd you get the squared figure to show up raised (forgot what they call a number that has the appearance of being raised to a power.....it's "something" script I think)? Is it a keyboard shortcut? (similar to pressing ALT 248 to get the degree symbol °?)
There is another way to get the scientific notations. At least the square and cube notation.mickyd wrote:How'd you get the squared figure to show up raised (forgot what they call a number that has the appearance of being raised to a power.....it's "something" script I think)? Is it a keyboard shortcut? (similar to pressing ALT 248 to get the degree symbol °?)
IIRC, it was one of my high school math teachers that passed along this bit of trivia (although it might have been the Latin teacher while we were translating the latin description of Hannibal's invasion across the Alps):charlese wrote: the ancient Egyptians discovered and used geometry and trigonometry prior to the discovery and use of algebra (by the Greeks I think).
Got it!!! Nice little trick!! Thanks. Windows Vista has that file. The term that escaped me earlier was "superscript".....the raised character like that in a power (3²) which incidently is ALT 0178 for the power ². Learn something NEW everyday.JPG40504 wrote:In \Windows\System32 folder you will find 'charmap.exe'. Copy it to the desktop. When you click on it it brings up a table of ALL characters in the font currently in use. If you click on an entry in the table(character) AND then click on 'select', it places a copy in a temporary area(more than one character may be so copied to the temporary area). You can then click on 'copy' which will place all those characters in the 'temporary area' in the clipboard.
When editing a post, you then paste the characters from the clipboard.
Now that IS more trouble than doing an ALTxxx, but it reveals ALL the characters in the font being used. This includes the extended character set(those ABOVE 256) which are NOT accessible using the 'ALT xxx' method.
One other 'detail' This MAY be a feature of 'power toys for windows' and NOT contained within a vanilla windows program set. If you cannot find it in \windows\system32, holler!
Correct but the raised portion is technically called a "superscripted exponent".curiousgeorge wrote:Scientific Notation?
I don't know....maybe I'm brain damaged. I still don't get it AND I still don't see how Ed (reible) is in this. I don't even know what his plastic triangle is. Last I saw, it was brass. And no, I'm not putting you on. You know me......I never kid!dusty wrote:Micky - you are putting me on.
Make a triangle (right triangle) from a piece of wood and use it because you don't have reible's plastic triangle.
But, maybe we should get bust making serious sawdust. That would be novel.
Forget about the circle part. He merely said(not in so many words) that 345 is a way to make a right triangle from scratch(material from the scrap pile). I also initially let the circle part get in the way of 'figgering it out'!:Dmickyd wrote:I don't know....maybe I'm brain damaged. I still don't get it AND I still don't see how Ed (reible) is in this. I don't even know what his plastic triangle is. Last I saw, it was brass. And no, I'm not putting you on. You know me......I never kid!
Take baby steps with me and I know that I'll get it eventually.
How 'bout the "Ed" part?JPG40504 wrote:Forget about the circle part. He merely said(not in so many words) that 345 is a way to make a right triangle from scratch(material from the scrap pile). I also initially let the circle part get in the way of 'figgering it out'!:D
Only the Dusty shadow knows!;)mickyd wrote:How 'bout the "Ed" part?