Questions tagged [fractions]
This tag is for questions regarding the display of fractions and related problems.
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Subscripts in fractions on an exponent look terrible
It seems that whenever we have a fraction in an exponent, the denominator looks terrible. For example,
The K in the subscript looks unduly large. This is definitely a bug or something. Is there any ...
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Problem with superscripts on fractions
I am a bit of a novice with LaTeX so excuse if this is a silly question.
I am writing a "common methods" booklet for my department, and one of the agreed methods is to show fractional ...
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x/y and y/x having different-sized parentheses
I wrapped \dfrac xy and \dfrac yx in left and right LaTeX tags with parentheses, and I expected that the parentheses would be the same size since x/y and y/x should technically be the same height. ...
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How can I format these "cases" better?
How can I edit the following fraction, so the "x" is bigger?
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\(\tfrac{x_{\left(\tfrac{n}{2}\right)} + x_{\left(\tfrac{n}{2} + 1\...
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I made a complex number command
So I've written a command as a homework assignment to render complex numbers correctly. Like, when I write \complfull{5}{-2} the output is 5-2i
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\...
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Right side of the equation is a denominator
Below is my overleaf latex code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\begin{document}
\begin{equation*}
\frac{\partial \log L(\theta)} {\partial\theta_k}
= \sum_{i=1}^{n}\delta_i \...
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Spacing in fractions
I have a fraction whose denominator is a fraction again.
I want to write the denominator in parantheses, but I have the feeling that the space is not really nice.
The lower term is nice from the ...
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How to automatically break fractions generated by Mathematica
I am looking for an automated way of presenting my Mathematica results in latex. My workflow at the moment is the following
I use TeXForm[] Mathematica function to generate a latex code from my ...
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How do I make a good northeast arrow to represent continued fractions?
I'm taking notes on a book which represents continued fractions like this:
When I'm doing this in LaTeX, I've been using \nearrow, but that looks more like this:
I don't love how everything is on ...
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Problem with writing a fraction expression
I am trying to obtain an expression where I want to write the numerator in multiple aligned lines, and I need a denominator covering all of the numerator terms in a single line.
My equation is:
But I ...
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Large vertical spacing in denominator above \rho
The vertical spacing above rho in the denominator here is off. I'm not sure if it's caused by the descender in the numerator, or if that only exaggerates the issue. I think both 2/μ and μ/2 look ...
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Line spacing between lines containing inline math
Honestly I give up on this. I searched for a solution to this for so long, but nothing seemed to work (well) for me.
I just want my equations to no longer look squashed together, referring to how ...
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Continued fraction is hard to read
So this sort of ties into this question on Puzzling.SE about making π out of the numbers [1...n] for n=[1,2,3...20]. I am currently working on a document using LAT EX that I am going to publish as an ...
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Fraction with double line with ams environment
I am not sure if this counts as a duplicate question, but I would like to have a fraction where the delimiter consists of two lines. I tried using the Tfrac solution at Fraction with doubled line and ...
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Latex for Continued Fractions
The current formula I have is:
\begin{displaymath}
1 = \frac{1}{\cfrac{2}{1-\cfrac{1}{3}}}
\end{displaymath}
How should I proceed further?
