Nov 7, 2015 · Let the creators of TeX and LaTeX answer: Donald Knuth wrote in the first chapter of his TeXbook: English words like ‘technology’ stem from a Greek root beginning with the …

Jun 8, 2013 · Is there a macro in latex to write ceil(x) and floor(x) in short form? The long form \\left \\lceil{x}\\right \\rceil is a bit lengthy to type every time it is used.

That's just an example: a student had to typeset a table comparing the "integral logarithm" (Li) and the function "n/log n" when studying the distribution of prime numbers. The point is that …