2016-06-25

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3Blue1Brown

Alternate notation for powers, logs, and roots.

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(This is the corrected version of the one I put out a month or so ago, in which my animation for all the inverse operations was incorrect)

Here's a sketch from the math redditer Cosmologicon showing how this might be usual with practical space considerations: http://i.imgur.com/hAeJokq.jpg

This original comes from an answer to a math exchange post by Alex Jordan, which you can find here: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/30046/alternative-notation-for-exponents-logs-and-roots

I also briefly flashed a blog post with another interesting alternative for logarithm notation: http://www.solidangl.es/2015/04/a-radical-new-look-for-logarithms.html