I just tried to google for “(x+1)^(x+1)/x^x” and was surprised the double inverted commas didn’t help stop the formula inside from being corrupted in the search.
Is there a standard way to google for maths equations? Or at least a way to google for an equation in a particular format (like the one above, using ^ to mean raise to the power of) to find articles where someone used the same format.
I’d be very surprised if there is.
“Double inverted commas”? You mean the quote marks?
Just tried using LaTeX notation for your expression
( \frac{(x+1)^{(x+1)}} {x^{x}} ) … no luck.
I think that’s a Britishism, like “maths equations.”
Apparently Google only searches for words, phrases, numbers, and such; other symbols are either ignored or have special meanings to Google. I don’t know whether or not there are any other search engines that would give you any better results, but it looks like this isn’t the kind of thing Google does.
Have you tried this site ?
It looks pretty good.
First of all, you aren’t even trying to find an equation.
Second of all, until the MathML partisans give up, lay back, and just accept that we should incorporate the near-universal LaTeX system into XML, there will be no way to search for any mathematical expression.
what’s a little f(x)= between friends.
(and I didn’t want to miss out on any articles using y = etc.) I haven’t used LaTeX (being that I used TeX in the old days, and never needed to go to LaTeX ).
Yeah, I can use solvers, graphic packages, and good old fashioned algebra on the function. But was interested in doing a search to see where such a function might be used or important.