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Viewing Message ``Re: \nabla and \partial'' by PhysBrain on 2006-08-05 07:29:04 I don't know that there is a global standard pronunciation for these operators.  It probably varies from person to person.  Your particular pronunciation will most likely be similar the one used by your first calculus instructor. Depending on the context, I usually pronounce the differential operator (\nabla) as: div:  for \nabla \cdot curl: for \nabla \times grad: for \nabla del-squared: for \nabla^2 del-x: for \nabla_x The partial deriviative operator (\partial) is always "partial of (some function) with respect to (some variable)." The total deriviatve (\mbox{d}) is the only one I think of as "d-(some function) by d-(some variable)", or just "d-(some variable)". --- Ad Astra Per Aspera [ reply | up | top ] Re: \nabla and \partial by pahio on 2006-08-07 11:52:10 Re: \nabla and \partial by IVE on 2006-10-02 07:10:03 Re: \nabla and \partial by pahio on 2006-10-02 12:29:48 Interact reply

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