We’ve been LaTEXed :)

LaTEX is here guys.  A great big thank you to Mr Jones and David Gilmour for making it happen for us.  I’m sure it wasn’t easy.  LaTEX allows you to type in mathematical expressions using special codes.  These display nicely in posts and comments.  Hopefully it will make our lives easier when communicating problems and solutions to each other.  There is a tutorial page at the link below.  I will endeavour to produce a quickguide to commands for you and post it sometime.  I’ll have to finish my marking first unfortunately.  I’m sure you’re all as excited as myself and Mr jones about this.

http://www.forkosh.com/mimetextutorial.html

19 Responses to “We’ve been LaTEXed :)”


  1. 1 Mr Jones Nov 30th, 2006 at 2:52 pm

    here’s a start on the smiley face challenge:

    3+\sqrt(1-(x-2)^2) ; 3-\sqrt(1-(x-2)^2)

  2. 2 girv Nov 30th, 2006 at 6:30 pm

    pardon?!

  3. 3 Craig Stebbing Nov 30th, 2006 at 6:50 pm

    We’re trying to create a maths graph smiley by plotting curves. The challenge is to produce the best smiley you can using the graph function. Enjoy.

  4. 4 Craig Stebbing Nov 30th, 2006 at 6:55 pm

    How about a pupil?

  5. 5 Craig Stebbing Nov 30th, 2006 at 7:09 pm

    I wonder if we can fill the pupil?

  6. 6 Spud Nov 30th, 2006 at 9:06 pm

    Thats pretty class

  7. 7 Samuel Nov 30th, 2006 at 9:42 pm

    How do you do those graphs? I can’t find it in the linked page. It only talks about writing formulae like x=\frac{-b\pm\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}

  8. 8 Mr Jones Nov 30th, 2006 at 11:02 pm
  9. 9 Samuel Nov 30th, 2006 at 11:20 pm

    Ah, makes sense now, thanks Mr Jones.

  10. 10 Kat The Great Dec 3rd, 2006 at 1:03 pm

  11. 11 Kat The Great Dec 3rd, 2006 at 1:11 pm

    i apologise in advance for all the comments but i really dont wanna look stupid if i get it wrong trying to go it all at once :P

  12. 12 Kat The Great Dec 3rd, 2006 at 1:17 pm

    i really hope this works

  13. 13 Kat The Great Dec 3rd, 2006 at 1:18 pm

    woo

  14. 14 Mr Jones Dec 3rd, 2006 at 3:13 pm

    Well done Kat! Now it just needs hair, some teeth, ears…..

  15. 15 Craig Stebbing Dec 3rd, 2006 at 5:06 pm

    I think our smiley needs a mole on its left cheek. Well done Oh Great Feline Friend.

  16. 16 Steve-O Dec 6th, 2006 at 3:59 pm

  17. 17 Steve-O Dec 6th, 2006 at 4:05 pm


    Maybe this time..?!

  18. 18 matt l Dec 6th, 2006 at 6:06 pm

  19. 19 Mr Jones Dec 6th, 2006 at 8:08 pm

    Steve-O - you had put in some superscript 2s where you should have had ^2 - I edited them for you because I wanted to see what you had created. Nice face!

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