# Linked Questions

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### How to sum two non-integer numbers in LaTeX? [duplicate]

Here is the sample format of non-integers number 12.5+13.8=26.3
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### adding a constant to a foreach counter? [duplicate]

Is there any way to define a new value that is a counter + a constant? e.g. \foreach\k in {0,1,...,7} { \def\m % ???? I want to make m=k+4 \draw[->] (box\k) -- (box\m); }
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### Evaluate combinations of page dimensions [duplicate]

For any given class and its specified page layout, I'd like to be able to combine (sum or subtract) a subset of the page dimensions, to obtain a length to work with, without specifying absolute values....
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### Define a variable in TikZ

I guess this is a very simple question, but I couldn't find the answer... How can I define a variable in TikZ? I want to have something like, for example: \draw[->] (x1,y1)--(x2,y2); Such that x1,...
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### Parse simple arithmetics and return the result

I want a command \ca which takes a simple arithmetic calculation as an argument and returns the result with proper decimal places. Additionally I want an boolean argument which decides if only the ...
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### Is it possible to load pgfmath without loading the full pgf package?

Update Oct 30th 2011 This has now been fixed in the CVS repository of PGF due to my bug report. With this version \usepackage{pgfmath} should work. I would like to use pgfmath in one of my ...
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### Increment/display the content of a (variable)/(section number) under latex?

To have something equivalent to echo of the shell. For instance in .tex file we have: \def \var{2} The content of var is \$var How to edit the tex file in such a way we have as output: The ...
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### Can the coding style of the algorithm environment be modified?

I'm using the packages \usepackage{algpseudocode} \usepackage{algorithm} to produce a pseudocode of the following algorithm: \begin{algorithm} \centering \caption{Octree based search ...
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### adding two lengths in tikz

I'd like to add two tikz dimensions, like so \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \newdimen\heya \newdimen\xtra \xtra=0.3cm \heya=4cm+\xtra \draw (0,0) -- (\heya,...
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### Filling the latex table dynamically

I have generated an exercise problem for a function table as \documentclass{article} \usepackage[top=1in, bottom=1in, left=1in, right=1in]{geometry} \usepackage{fancyhdr} \usepackage{multicol} \...
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### Generating pdf files that are “viewing-time” or current system-time dependent [closed]

The \FpEval{}{} function which can be used to do computations, and store the result in a variable, in latex. For details, kindly see How can I sum two values and store the result in other variable? . ...
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### Is it possible to output a relative line number in flagderiv?

I am trying to output a number relative to the current step of my proof instead of being hard coded. I'll try and explain what I mean with this proof: \documentclass[11pt]{article} \usepackage[...
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### Division in Latex -I'm getting incorrect values-How to perform division correctly

I'm trying to perform a division and sometimes it works and other times I get and unexpected value. \documentclass[fleqn]{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{enumerate} \usepackage{cancel} \...
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### Dimension drawing macro for TikZ pictures

Preamble I use a lot of environments provided by tikz-timing and pgfplots packages. Often i specify dimensions for some elements in tikz picture. For example, time delay between rises of two pulses ...