On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:45:11 +0100
John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2009/6/14 Burcin Erocal <bur...@erocal.org>:
<snip>
> >
> > Here is what MMA does:
> >
> > In[1]:= D[F[x], x]
> >
> > Out[1]= F'[x]
> >
> > In[2]:= TeXForm[%]
> >
> > Out[2]//TeXForm= F'(x)
> >
> > In[3]:= D[F[x], x, x, x, x, x]
> >
> > (5)
> > Out[3]= F [x]
> >
> > In[4]:= TeXForm[%]
> >
> > Out[4]//TeXForm= F^{(5)}(x)
<snip>
> >
> > And Maple:
<snip>
> >
> > I like the way MMA handles this. It's compact and consistent. So I
> > suggest we change things to use the MMA convention.
>
> The MMA convention seems to include as a special case a prime (') for
> derivatives of functions of one variable Is that right? Seems good
> to me.
MMA has ' and '' as a special case:
In[1]:= D[F[x],x]
Out[1]= F'[x]
In[2]:= D[%, x]
Out[2]= F''[x]
In[3]:= D[%, x]
(3)
Out[3]= F [x]
Thanks.
Burcin
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