SOLUTION: Using a standard American keyboard, how do I enter a square root symbol ? How do I enter an exponent ? How do I enter a pi symbol ? How do I enter a greater than or less than symb

Question 289141: Using a standard American keyboard, how do I enter a square root symbol ? How do I enter an exponent ? How do I enter a pi symbol ? How do I enter a greater than or less than symbol ? How do I enter does not equal symbol ? If you can add any other 'problematic' keyboard entries it would be greatly appreciated.

Found 2 solutions by stanbon, jim_thompson5910:
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Using a standard American keyboard,
how do I enter a square root symbol ?:: use "sqrt"
How do I enter an exponent ?::: use ^(power) or "to the---power"
How do I enter a pi symbol ?::: use 3.14 or (22/7)
How do I enter a greater than or less than symbol ?::: use > or "greater than"
; use < or "less than"
How do I enter does not equal symbol ?::: use "is not equal to"
How to enter e ::: use 2.1828..
If you can add any other 'problematic' keyboard entries it would be greatly appreciated.
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Cheers,
Stan H.

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can use the character map, but it may not have everything you're looking for. So I recommend that you simply use the following:

Square root: type sqrt(6) to denote

Exponent: type x^3 (shift + 6 to get the ^ symbol) to get

Pi: This is just pi. You can also find this in the character map.

Greater than symbol: Simply use ">" (without quotes)

Less than symbol: Use "<" (without quotes)

Does not equal (or not equal) symbol: Either use =/= or <> to represent something like .

In addition to square roots, you have other nth roots (eg cube roots). I'd suggest you type root(3,x) to write out . Fourth roots would then be root(4,y) to get etc.

Also, there is the greater than or equal to symbol. So to write out , just type x >= 3. In reverse, the less than or equal symbol is typed out as "<=" (without quotes). For instance, to type , write y <= 5.

I'm sure that there are a ton of other things that you can't directly enter from the keyboard, but nothing else is coming to mind.
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