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From: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell)
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Subject: sqrt etc. in TeX
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Date: Mon, 30-Dec-85 14:05:08 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 30 14:05:08 1985
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I suspect the reasons why sqrt etc. were not included in TeX are:

	a) Knuth didn't think they were useful to have in a text formatter
	b) TeX is already too big


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