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Rimantas Liubertas rimantas at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 02:47:38 PST 2005


On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:17:02 +1300, Matthew Thomas <mpt at myrealbox.com> wrote:
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> Except that "sub" is merely (an abbreviation of) a description of the
> typographical presentation! You might just as well say that H<font
> color="green">2</font>O is semantic because it could be pronounced as
> "H green-two O".

I cannot agree. We should not mix typographical presentation for
presentation sake and
typographical presentation for semantic reason.
While it may be not a big deal in chemistry, it is not so in math.

Or is E=mc2 same as E=mc<sup>2</sup>?
Do log4nm and log<sub>4</sub>n<sup>m</sup> differ?

Regards,
Rimantas
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