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JadeNB on June 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Khan Academy now supports tau

> APOSTROPHE MEANS DERIVATIVE!!!!1!!!11!!!

Prime means derivative; fʹ is the derivative of f, whereas either of f' or f’ is an abomination. (TeX permits the former abomination by, essentially, translating f' into f^\prime.)

Daniel_Newby on June 28, 2012 [–]

I stand corrected. Perhaps we should pick a different compromise, say, tau with Unicode combining ring above: τ̊.

Edit: On Mac. Trying to do that on a Kindle Fire was ... unproductive.

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