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[Solved] Left none / right none shorthand
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:23 pm
by beserk1
is there a shorthand for left none and right none?
I use it as a group, a sort of invisible bracket, instead of (), to make the formula look much cleaner
Is there another way of doing that? or do I have to stick with left none and right none?
thanks
Re: left none / right none shorthand
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:36 pm
by acknak
I've never seen that before, so I'm guessing there is no shorthand for it.
Could you give an example where this is useful?
Re: left none / right none shorthand
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:08 pm
by beserk1
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left none n-r right none over left none r+1 right none
basically is for making the formula looks much cleaner, since the n-r over r+1 will provide a completely different result, and if you use () to group it, it just clutter up the formula.
they both display the same formula, but the first one will group the n-r and r+1 with out (), while the 2nd one will group it with a traditional ().
if there is no shorthand for it, is there some sort of user-define macro or auto-correct-as-you-type feature in openoffice??
Re: left none / right none shorthand
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:43 pm
by acknak
Sorry, I misunderstood what you were after.
Just use curly braces
{} to mark sub-expressions in a formula:
You can use them to separate tokens, group tokens together, or to provide an empty token:
{x}{y}
{} times 2