[QUOTE=science_man_88;225258]well if a pattern could be deduced it would figure out what exponents in a range are possible as Mersenne primes exponents when taken along with they must be prime.[/QUOTE]

Really, this doesn't help for the reasons I've already discussed.

[QUOTE=science_man_88;225261]anyone want to help me with [TEX] commands ? I've been playing around but I don't know a list to help me save my butt lol.[/QUOTE]

Google is your friend. TeX is easiest to learn one step at a time.

you can start a new thread with tex commands if you want.

[QUOTE=CRGreathouse;225263]Really, this doesn't help for the reasons I've already discussed.



Google is your friend. TeX is easiest to learn one step at a time.[/QUOTE]

yeah that's how i figured out what i know lol any good site for it ?

[QUOTE=science_man_88;225264]you can start a new thread with tex commands if you want.[/QUOTE]

Look [url=http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=11884]this thread[/url] and post #29!

found a link to a large set of the math symbols god how do you keep them apart lol seems like millions lol.

I think this forum has this formula.

crank[TEX] \equiv [/TEX]thinker but, [TEX]\therefore[/TEX] mathematician [TEX]\equiv[/TEX] crank + action

[QUOTE=science_man_88;225275]found a link to a large set of the math symbols god how do you keep them apart lol seems like millions lol.[/QUOTE]

You learn them one at a time, forgetting most of what you learn but keeping what you use most often.

Any person who doesn't get frustrated with TeX every now and then either (1) doesn't use it much, or (2) is named Don Knuth.

[QUOTE=CRGreathouse;225276]You learn them one at a time, forgetting most of what you learn but keeping what you use most often.

Any person who doesn't get frustrated with TeX every now and then either (1) doesn't use it much, or (2) is named Don Knuth.[/QUOTE]

bet you can even code that in TeX lol

myself outside of the Greek letters I'm almost lost on most of their meanings lol.

I like I know [TEX]\sum[/TEX] but as I've proved I wouldn't understand all the notation around it anyone care to help in this regard ?

though I've heard of integrals I've never taken calculus so I had no idea what they mean't until I just looked it up.

figured out some of it by looking at Wikipedia wow math is hard to read no wonder people read the worded version more than the equations (though this is a problem that creates misunderstandings between higher and lower mathematicians etc., anyone on this forum knows that,) lol.

[QUOTE=science_man_88;225285] math is hard to read no wonder people read the worded version more than the equations lol.[/QUOTE]

No! Equations are 'easier' to understand because words can interpreted in different ways, especially the person who tries to explain something with his own words but another person even understand something totally different!

[QUOTE=kar_bon;225290]No! Equations are 'easier' to understand because words can interpreted in different ways, especially the person who tries to explain something with his own words but another person even understand something totally different![/QUOTE]

I submit this thread as an example....

[QUOTE=kar_bon;225290]No! Equations are 'easier' to understand because words can interpreted in different ways, especially the person who tries to explain something with his own words but another person even understand something totally different![/QUOTE]

until a second ago by looking on Wikipedia about pi I didn't know what all the symbols around [TEX]\sum[/TEX] mean't.

since I know how to word the formula they talked about I now understand it.

still can't TeX code it though.

[URL="http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/4/9/0/4903aa53b3b3e348a2bf36359d9b2d27.png"]http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/4/9/0/4903aa53b3b3e348a2bf36359d9b2d27.png[/URL]