How to write number degree

How to write number degree

The number exponent in habitual to all from school designation is written with small figure approximately at the level of height of the number which is most built in degree. To represent it in any text editor which is not supporting function of formatting of the text it will not turn out without use of special fonts. However ways of record of degrees of numbers for applications with various opportunities of display exist.

Instruction

1. For writing of numbers in degrees in the simplest text editors (for example, in Windows Notebook) it is accepted to use the designation which for the first time appeared in the BASIC programming language. Between number and its degree the sign having the name "tsirkumflex" is put. Record, for example, number 5297 in the seventh degree will look at its use so: 5297^7Чтобы to enter tsirkumflex it is necessary to switch keyboard layout to the English option and to press a combination of the SHIFT keys + 6.

2. In more advanced editors to use the special sign there is no need. Their ability to displace the basic line of separate signs of rather others allows to display number degree in the way which became habitual for the last three hundred years. Such editors have in the interface of a button for switching of tracing of letters in the mode of the top and lower indexes ("nadstrochny" and "interlinear" signs). For example, in the Microsoft Word 2007 text editor the pictogram with the image of X in a square is placed in the menu in the section "Main", in the section "Font". To use, it is necessary to allocate the figure designating number degree and to click this pictogram.

3. In HTML-documents it is possible to use habitual, entered still by Descartes, designation of degree of number too. For this purpose in the HTML language (HyperText team (tag) - sup. The number designating degree should be placed between opening (<sup>) and closing (</sup>) tags. For example, the HTML-code fragment with record of number 5297 in the seventh degree, in the source code of the document will look so: 5297 <sup> 7 </sup> the Opposite (lower) index in a hypertext markup language turn out the room of figures and letters between sub opening and closing tags - <sub> 7 </sub>

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