I have seen Einstein's field equation rendered something like this:
  R(ij) - 1/2g(ij)R = 8piT(ij)
which I suppose isn't too bad as long as we are dealing with tensors that only have subscripts but what happens when we have tensors with superscripts, I suppose you could write one like this:   T^(ij).  Of course, tensors can have both subscripts and superscripts, such as with Christoffel tensors.  I would think that those would prove to be rather difficult indeed to render in ASCII in way that woud be legible to the reader.  Sir Isaac, of course, did not have to worry about such things.
Jim F.

-- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@yahoo.com> wrote:


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@juno.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:18:51 -0500 Doug Henwood
> <dhenwood@panix.com>
> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > Begin forwarded message:
> > 
> > > From: jkschw1@yahoo.com
> > > Date: December 25, 2006 9:23:35 AM EST
> > > To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood@panix.com>
> > > Subject: Happy Newton's Day
> > > Reply-To: jkschw1@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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