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		jhanschoo on July 31, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LaTeX Math in MS Office Actually, many mathematics authors use an italic d while the upright d convention is standard in physics and engineering.

adrianratnapala on July 31, 2017 [–]

Is that to disambiguate it from the upright d in exterior calculus?

That would be funny, as that symbol was chosen specifically to overload with the traditional little-d notation from Leibniz.

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