Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Visual Way To Build Math Equations

By Peter Martin

You probably know that there are some who can visualize maths equations in their head and can very simply write down the basic figures they need for bringing the answer into focus, or indeed the answer itself. Tesla, the inventor of radio technology, was able to perform very complex calculus in his head and got a fail grade at school simply because he wasn't able to work it out another way; in other words he couldn't work it out on paper.

Today most people are found to be visual and need to see the work on paper (or on the screen) to get a full grasp on the equation and to render an answer accurately. With the Wysiwyg Equation Editor by Microsoft, this is now made easier.

The Wysiwyg Equation Editor is designed and included with all Microsoft Office 2007 and higher suites and is designed as a wysiwyg editor (what you see is what you get) that allows people the ability to generate calculations in a very visual way. It is a real time calculator as well as a graphical tool that can be used for many other applications as well.

For example, if you are creating an equation, you may move the equation to another application by using the XML markup language which is included in the control. The control may additionally be embedded by using an OLE embedded object feature on supported applications.

This makes this a dynamic editor that can become quite useful in many mathematical applications, as well as working with programs to generate a calculation formula of something dependent on this to function, there by adding functionality to the program that would have otherwise taken more coding to pull off.

One of the important applications I have seen for MS WYSIWYG Equation Editor is in relation to formulation sciences and for chemistry. The user can build and save their equations in very much the same way you would be writing them out on a chalk board, then flipping the board over to save the equation while you work on different one.

Adopting this format it's possible for you to save your work digitally, then import it to programs and even export it to a web-site page if you like. In essence it's an sophisticated visual calculator with significantly more built-in functions. - 16069

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