Charlotte Aten on Nostr: Why don't we write the logarithm like this? It feels like teaching students what ...
Why don't we write the logarithm like this? It feels like teaching students what logarithms are is way more painful than teaching roots, but this notation emphasizes that they are perfectly analogous.
I can provide my rough #TexLatex source for this if people are interested.
#math #teaching #notation
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