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Anonymous Thu 08 Aug 14:24:44 2019 No.10873629 View Reply Original Report

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why do people use superscripts for anything but exponentials

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Anonymous Thu 08 Aug 2019 14:26:53 No.10873634 Report

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>>10873629
nobody would get shit done if they had to agree upon notation that worked in every case first

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Anonymous Thu 08 Aug 2019 14:35:00 No.10873647 Report

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an ion with it's charge

1st 2nd 3rd 4th but with the two letters being superscripted

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Imnot Arobot Thu 08 Aug 2019 16:57:49 No.10873922 Report

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electron configuration of Uranium:
[Rn] $\mathrm{5f^{3}6d^{1}7s^{2}}$

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Anonymous Fri 09 Aug 2019 00:18:07 No.10874680 Report

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>>10873629
It's good for labelling something just like subscripts, if you get it confused just make your superscripts for labels small and the power indices bigger and more distinctive

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Anonymous Fri 09 Aug 2019 00:26:24 No.10874699 Report

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>>10873629
Because I don't use them for exponentials, and therefore there is no ambiguity.

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Anonymous Fri 09 Aug 2019 00:28:56 No.10874705 Report

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>>10873629
cause oftentimes you need more than one index, or sometimes the position of the index represents something (covariant vs contravariant)

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Anonymous Fri 09 Aug 2019 00:39:32 No.10874733 Report

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>>10873629
That is the "Zoidberg Code."

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