Thread: subscript and superscript

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    subscript and superscript

    How do i display subscript and superscript on the screen ?
    Can I do it using printf ?

    for example superscript 2 as in x^2.

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    Ehh... this is hard. Can't be done with ANSI C. The symbol for a superscript 2 is a special case however, there is an ASCII character for that, so you could do x^2, but nothing else. At least, not using printf. Here is the code for a program that displays a table of the ASCII characters and their corresponding values...
    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    
    int main ()
    {
     int c, i;
    
     // There are 256 ascii characters, from 0 to 255.
     // A lot of the values just can't be displayed.  For example, there is
     //  the newline character, a backspace character, a tab character, and
     //  probably the most entertaining one, the beep character.
     
     for (c = 0; c < 256; )
     {
     // Adjust the stopping value for i accordingly.
      for (i = 0; i < (80) / 7 && c < 256; i++, c++)
      {
       printf ("%3d %c  ", c, c);
      }
      // Depending on stopping value, this may or may not be commented out.
      printf ("\n");
     }
     return 0;
    }
    If you really need to do this, you're gonna need some graphics routines, which would mean allegro. I reccomend just using the ^ symbol to represent powers.
    Callou collei we'll code the way
    Of prime numbers and pings!

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    Thanks

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