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Joined 15 November 2005
Latest comment: 18 years ago by Michael Hardy in topic TeXnical issues
Please notice the difference between these:
![{\displaystyle f(x)={\frac {a_{0}}{2}}+\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }[a_{n}cos({\frac {n\pi x}{L}})+b_{n}sin({\frac {n\pi x}{L}})]}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/0fad394ff168f8a4c48f0ef3b629d8f143f12003)
![{\displaystyle f(x)={\frac {a_{0}}{2}}+\sum _{n=1}^{\infty }\left[a_{n}\cos \left({\frac {n\pi x}{L}}\right)+b_{n}\sin \left({\frac {n\pi x}{L}}\right)\right]}](https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/media/math/render/svg/da8a9927a50cae6edc3455830c8178be0ca564b9)
- The square brackets and round parentheses are bigger in the second one.
- "sin" and "cos" are not italicized in the second one. The preceeding backslash not only prevents the letters from being italicized as if they were variables, but also provides proper spacing before and after "sin" and "cos" in some circumstances. Similarly with \log, \ln, \exp, \max, \min, \sup, \inf, \det, etc.
Michael Hardy 00:06, 3 July 2006 (UTC) Bold text