Re: Directional derivative in content MathML?

Hi.

> Is there an accepted notation for marking up directional (ie. vector) 
> derivatives (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DirectionalDerivative.html) in 
> content MathML?  My first inclination was to use the <gradient> tag, but 
> that's not quite correct since it's really the dot product of the 
> gradient and the unit direction vector.  Is the <diff/> tag appropriate 
> here?  How would I specify the directional vector?  A <bvar> perhaps?

Unfortunately, I think not.  This is right on the edge of where
content MathML stops. Sorry.

--Robert

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Received on Tuesday, 20 May 2003 16:27:39 UTC