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Triangle of Power

3Blue1Brown · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Recreational & visual mathPure mathematics

What it is

3Blue1Brown presents the Triangle of Power, an alternate notation that unifies powers, logarithms and roots in a single triangular symbol. The video shows how the inverse operations relate and how the notation could help.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN points to it in notation debates as a clean visual demonstration that exponents, logs and roots are three views of one relationship.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “My favorite new math notation is the triangle of power”

    Triangle notation unifying powers, roots and logarithms

    Houshalter, 2017-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Towards a Better Notation for Mathematics (2010) [pdf]”

  2. “My favorite by far is a”

    Alternate notation that makes math less intimidating

    hashar, 2023-06 · Strong recommendation · in “Ego and Math – 3B1B 2023 Stanford Math Department Commencement Speech [video]”

  3. “uses a clever bit of notation to unify exponents and logarithms”

    Clever notation unifying exponents and logarithms

    norepicycle, 2018-05 · Recommendation · in “Experimental music notation resources (2015)”

  4. “3blue1brown has a very well known video that explains it in a visual way.”

    Visual explanation that exponentials, logs and roots say the same thing

    Banana699, 2022-04 · Recommendation · in “Bad but interesting mathematical notation idea”

  5. “Worth a read/watch!”

    Video that surfaces a similar notation idea

    vaishnavsm, 2022-04 · Recommendation · in “Bad but interesting mathematical notation idea”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: exponents, logarithms, roots, 3blue1brown, notation

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