Thursday, January 15, 2009

Visual Way To Build Math Equations

By Peter Martin

There are folks who are able to see maths equations in their head and they are able to simply write down the basic figures they require in order to bring the answer into focus, or the answer itself. Tesla was the radio technology inventor, could perform complex calculus in his head and was awarded a fail grade at school because he simply was not able to work it out any other way; in other words, not 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.

If you create an equation for example, you can move this equation into another application using the xml markup language built into the control. The control can also be embedded using an OLE embedded object feature on applications that support it.

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.

Using this format it is possible to save your work digitally and then port it to programs and even export it to a website page if you want. In essence it is an advanced visual calculator with built-in extra functions.

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