On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:58 AM, rjf <fate...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 5, 9:06 am, Golam Mortuza Hossain <gmhoss...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Robert Bradshaw
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>> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
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>> > On Apr 3, 2009, at 7:16 PM, Nick Alexander wrote:
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>> >>> (1) \int dx f(x)
>> >>> (2) \int f(x) dx
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>> >> I prefer (2).
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>> > I've actually never seen (1) used; (2) seems much more natural. The
>> > "\int dx \int dy f" is strange as the "dx dy" is often best viewed as
>> > single differential.
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>> Thanks Nick, Robert! OK, then we settle on (2) for integral.
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> The only people I know who use the other ordering are physicists with
> 14-deep integrals, where associating the variable and the limits is
> MUCH easier with version 1. There may be other people, too.
>
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>> The remaining issue is now to settle the conventions for derivative.
>> Currently, maxima uses "\\partial" symbol even for functions
>> of single variable.
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> This does not seem to be true.
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> I just ran Maxima on 'diff(f(x),x) and I got this:
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> {d}\over{d\,x}}\,f\left(x\right)
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> So if it uses \partial, it is because Sage is messing it up.
You're right, it does not use partial for a single variable, even through Sage.
sage: m = maxima('integrate(sin(x^3),x)')
sage: m
'integrate(sin(x^3),x)
sage: m._latex_()
'\\int {\\sin x^3}{\\;dx}'
sage: latex(integrate(sin(x^3),x))
\int {\sin x^3}{\;dx}
William
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