While MathPoint is intended to do calculations, it is important to remember that MathPoint notes act as regular note-taking pages as well. A note does not need to contain any calculations at all.
One reason we invented MathPoint, however, was because it traditionally has been very hard to document your work. A note can contain written text before, after or even in the middle of calculations and equations. Even variables can be documented.
3*sin(34)-sqrt(23)=
In fact, you could copy this page, paste into MathPoint, and select
(CALC). It would work!
For instance the following variable definitions are all possible:
Velocity: 35 m/s
Percent Change: 45.2%
Annual Interest: 3.75% expressed as a percentage
Loan Amount: $100,000
Dollar To Euro: €1.4421 as of August 24, 2011
Any combination of pre- and post-fix notation can be used. Pre-fix currencies include but are not limited to the dollar, euro, pound, yen, yuan and won.
To comment a block of text use /* before the text and */ after the text. MathPoint will ignore anything between the two even if it is in the middle of an equation. Anything can be within the marks. The comment can incorporate multiple lines of text as well, with or without returns breaking up the content.
Alternatively the comment mark // will comment out the remainder of that line's text up to the next return. All text between the // and return will be ignored.
One reason we invented MathPoint, however, was because it traditionally has been very hard to document your work. A note can contain written text before, after or even in the middle of calculations and equations. Even variables can be documented.
Interspersing Notes and Calculations
MathPoint is very good at figuring out what you meant to calculate and what you didn't. That makes it possible to write text, like this document, and intersperse it with equations and formulas, too.3*sin(34)-sqrt(23)=
In fact, you could copy this page, paste into MathPoint, and select
(CALC). It would work!
Documenting Variables
Variables, too, can be annotated. It is possible to assign both pre-fix currency symbols and post-fix descriptions to a variable's value. If using that value in a calculation MathPoint just ignores the surrounding text. If calculating that variable MathPoint is smart enough to put the result in the correct location.For instance the following variable definitions are all possible:
Velocity: 35 m/s
Percent Change: 45.2%
Annual Interest: 3.75% expressed as a percentage
Loan Amount: $100,000
Dollar To Euro: €1.4421 as of August 24, 2011
Any combination of pre- and post-fix notation can be used. Pre-fix currencies include but are not limited to the dollar, euro, pound, yen, yuan and won.
Comments
There are some annotations that cannot be distinguished by MathPoint, however. For example MathPoint always gets confused by equals (=) signs and is sometimes confused by other math symbols. If you intended for these symbols to be used in non-mathematical ways, you can command MathPoint to ignore these sections of text. There are two comment marks MathPoint makes available: one to comment blocks of text and another to comment the rest of a line of text.To comment a block of text use /* before the text and */ after the text. MathPoint will ignore anything between the two even if it is in the middle of an equation. Anything can be within the marks. The comment can incorporate multiple lines of text as well, with or without returns breaking up the content.
Alternatively the comment mark // will comment out the remainder of that line's text up to the next return. All text between the // and return will be ignored.