The second version is erroneneous, however. My version is at lesat accurate and comprehensible. I have no idea how to represent tensor equations in ASCII, but Dec. 25 is Newton's Day anyway.
--- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
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>
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:18:51 -0500 Doug Henwood
> <dhenwood at panix.com>
> writes:
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: jkschw1 at yahoo.com
> > > Date: December 25, 2006 9:23:35 AM EST
> > > To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> > > Subject: Happy Newton's Day
> > > Reply-To: jkschw1 at yahoo.com
> > >
> > > Please post to lbo, thanks.
> > >
> > > Keep your feet on the shoulders of giants:
> > >
> > > F = (g)m1m2/d2
> > >
> > > Sorry I can't get the super- and subscripts. . .
> .
>
>
> I think the accepted way of rendering Newton's
> Law of Graviation in Ascii on the Internet
> would be something like
> this:
>
> F = G m1 m2 / r^2
>
> Sometimes people will write:
>
> F = G * m1 * m2 / r^2
>
> I am not sure how one would render
> Einstein's Law of Gravitation with its
> tensor notation, though.
>
> > >
> > > Happy Newton's Day, comrades!
> > >
> > > jks
> > > Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.
> > >
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