How can I write super-script and sub-script on Yahoo Answers?

Question

I've seen it before when people are showing 5 ^ -2 or something like that.

Also if anyone knows how to get the + and - sign (combined)

thanks

Answer 1

I'm not sure if you can. maby you could copy and paste from a word document.

tho i think 5^-2 is perfectly understandable. perhaps put the minus 2 in brackets just to make absolutely clear what you mean.

5^(-2)

Answer 2

for ± hold down the Alt key and press 0177

for ² hold down Alt and press 0178

if you are using Windows, go to Start -> Run and type in charmap.

this has a lot of common characters that you can use.  

Answer 3

try symbols on microsoft word and copy and paste it.

other than that i dunno.

Answer 4

I know for a fact that you can't.  I even tried copying and pasting from Word and it just changed it back to normal.  What I usually do is capitalize what should be normal and lowercase what should be in subscript, or put whatever needs to be in superscript after a ^ symbol.  So, for a logarithm, it would be:

LOGxZ = Y

And for an exponent it would be:

x^y = z

And for the + and - thing, I just do +/-.  Hope this helps!

Answer 5

On a Mac, just use the Character Palette, which can be enabled in the International preference pane.

On Windows, use alt codes. Hold down alt while pressing the numbers on the number keypad. A few alt codes:

241 ±

253 ²

251 √

236 ∞

242 ≥