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[Kirian]

Latex is strange:

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X \wedge Y produces the smash product of X and Y.
If you want the wedge sum, you need to do

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X \vee Y

Speaking of math symbols, I am grading a stack of exams at the moment and really wish my students would write lower case t with the little serif at the bottom.  Also, cross their z.

I always serif my t... But I think crossing the z is a non-US thing.  I know a few who do it but not many.  However it's easy to make the 2 obviously different.

[SirPeebles]

Latex is strange:

Code: [Select]

X \wedge Y produces the smash product of X and Y.
If you want the wedge sum, you need to do

Code: [Select]

X \vee Y

Speaking of math symbols, I am grading a stack of exams at the moment and really wish my students would write lower case t with the little serif at the bottom.  Also, cross their z.

I always serif my t... But I think crossing the z is a non-US thing.  I know a few who do it but not many.  However it's easy to make the 2 obviously different.

Mathematicians and physicists don't all agree on whether to call it zed or zee, but we all cross them.

[GeoLib]

I made the decision to cross my "z"s and serif my "t"s in, I think, 8th grade math (I'd been crossing my "7"s for a while already at that point).

[eHalcyon]

I made the decision to cross my "z"s and serif my "t"s in, I think, 8th grade math (I'd been crossing my "7"s for a while already at that point).

I can't remember whether I started crossing by z's and 7's in Jr. or Sr. High, but I started both at the same time.  If I use t or x as variables in an equation, I write them differently than my regular letters.  I curve the stem for t and my x is written as two curves that touch rather than two lines that cross.  I do similar things with some other letters too.

[Titandrake]

I started crossing my z's when I wasted an hour thinking it was a 2. I don't serif my t's though.

[shraeye]

Latex is strange:

Code: [Select]

X \wedge Y produces the smash product of X and Y.
If you want the wedge sum, you need to do

Code: [Select]

X \vee Y

Speaking of math symbols, I am grading a stack of exams at the moment and really wish my students would write lower case t with the little serif at the bottom.  Also, cross their z.

Arrrrggg.  I feel you.  I have plenty of students who write their x's without crossing them.  It ends up looking like )(.  This is fine in some cases.  But during an exam, students apparently rush a bit.  And it starts to look like )  (.  Now we have wonderful statements like.
The roots of )  (()  (^2 - 4)  () are... 
Well I no longer care what they are, because I want to gauge my eyes out.

[qmech]

Well I no longer care what they are, because I want to gauge my eyes out.

That does help you to focus if they end up with too many degrees of freedom.

[Kuildeous]

The way I scribble my formulas, you'd be grateful to see that I cross my zeds. And I add a curve to the bottom of my Ts.

When you say you add a serif to T, is it just a sharp line so that it looks like a curved T only with an angle instead of a curve? I could see that, though I was imagining someone writing a lower-case T and adding little decorations to it.

[SirPeebles]

By serif, I mean that little bend at the bottom.  Exactly like in the lower case t you see in the font you are reading right now.

Edit: After looking around on the web, it seems that the little hook isn't considered a serif.  Anyone know what it is called?

[WanderingWinder]

By serif, I mean that little bend at the bottom.  Exactly like in the lower case t you see in the font you are reading right now.

Definitely don't necessarily have a serifed font on your browser....

[Kirian]

By serif, I mean that little bend at the bottom.  Exactly like in the lower case t you see in the font you are reading right now.

Edit: After looking around on the web, it seems that the little hook isn't considered a serif.  Anyone know what it is called?

Apparently it is a "spur."

[sudgy]

I don't add a whatever-it-is to t, but I make sure the cross is higher than on +.  My z and 2 are different enough.  I might write x differently than most, here is my x (when written as a variable) vs. my x (when written as multiplying, although I don't do that too often):

_  _
 \/   \/
_/\_  /\


If you can't tell from the amazing ASCII art, I do the strokes in the same order for both them, but I make my variable x with things on the edges.

[Kirian]

In order to distinguish my x from a multiplication sign, I just use a dot.

(And vectors have an arrow, so don't say anything about cross-products.)

[SirPeebles]

Last night's episode of Cosmos is by far the best one yet.  I highly recommend it.  It's on hulu.

[pingpongsam]

I cross my Sevens. Picked up the habit when transposing several thousand alphanumeric serial numbers by hand. I cross my Zees when I see fit to do so but crossing my Sevens is automatic today.

[Dsell]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

[Kuildeous]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

By saying that, you just crossed me, so now you're a liar.

[liopoil]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

By saying that, you just crossed me, so now you're a liar.

Are you still crossed?

[SirPeebles]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

But then your quantum mechanics is ambiguous by a factor of 2pi 

[Dsell]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

But then your quantum mechanics is ambiguous by a factor of 2pi 

Zpi? You're not making any sense, Peebles.

[Witherweaver]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

But then your quantum mechanics is ambiguous by a factor of 2pi 

Zpi? You're not making any sense, Peebles.

He is German: Zis is zee pie.

[SirPeebles]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

But then your quantum mechanics is ambiguous by a factor of 2pi 

Zpi? You're not making any sense, Peebles.

That's, right, Z.  Stick that in your function and iterate it.  You chaotic monster!

[Witherweaver]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

But then your quantum mechanics is ambiguous by a factor of 2pi 

Zpi? You're not making any sense, Peebles.

That's, right, Z.  Stick that in your function and iterate it.  You chaotic monster!

Mandelbrot Pie!

[Axxle]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

But then your quantum mechanics is ambiguous by a factor of 2pi 

Zpi? You're not making any sense, Peebles.

That's, right, Z.  Stick that in your function and iterate it.  You chaotic monster!

Zee or Zed?

[sudgy]

I cross nothing. Let chaos reign!!

But then your quantum mechanics is ambiguous by a factor of 2pi 

Zpi? You're not making any sense, Peebles.

That's, right, Z.  Stick that in your function and iterate it.  You chaotic monster!

Zee or Zed?

It's obviously Zeta.