How to read out the math signs and more

[gxnn]

Hi, I am a Chinese fan of this site, as many of you have already known, I know it is not very appropriate to seek help here, but after I have tried elsewhere without being satisfied, so I need your help.

I need to read out the following in a powerpoint presentation, but the math signs are something I haven't learned how to read in English:

anchorage length =max(0.5hc+5d,Lae)=max(500,740)= 740

Could anybody help to write out the words in full, thank you!

Another problem is that I write a slogan for my presentation:
We enable you to read drawings, we enable you to do calculations. （meaning through the presentation, the audience are able to read the engineering drawings and do the calculation based on the data he gets from the drawings.) Do you think it is clumsy and any advice to improve that?
Are the words, map, picture, figure, image interchangable with the word drawing?

 

[goldytheGoldfish]

Lae is the capital of Morobe Province and is the second-largest city in Papua New Guinea. It is situated near the delta of the Markham River and marks the beginning of the Highlands Highway, which serves as the primary land transport route connecting the Highlands Region to the coast.

You got this.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hi, I am a Chinese fan of this site, as many of you have already known, I know it is not very appropriate to seek help here, but after I have tried elsewhere without being satisfied, so I need your help.

I need to read out the following in a powerpoint presentation, but the math signs are something I haven't learned how to read in English:

anchorage length =max(0.5hc+5d,Lae)=max(500,740)= 740

= equals
+ plus
( ) brackets

Could anybody help to write out the words in full, thank you!

Another problem is that I write a slogan for my presentation:
We enable you to read drawings, we enable you to do calculations. （meaning through the presentation, the audience are able to read the engineering drawings and do the calculation based on the data he gets from the drawings.) Do you think it is clumsy and any advice to improve that?

We help you read drawings, we help you with the calculations

Are the words, map, picture, figure, image interchangable with the word drawing?

A map is a drawn representation of geography, for example, a map of the world, a road map.

A picture can be a photograph, a painting, or an illustration.

A figure, in this context, is an illustration or graphic representation in a book or a document.

An image usually means a small reproduction of a larger photo, painting or drawing in a book, or in a PowerPoint presentation.

An engineering drawing represents something that can be built - a plan or outline, showing the outlines and detail.

The words are similar because they all refer to an image, but they're not always exactly interchangeable.

 

[Britva415]

A drawing is a figure somebody made with tools. Not a camera, but tools like a pen, straight-edge ruler and compass, or maybe a computer graphics program which is designed around generating and arranging lines and shapes.

An image usually refers to a digital file containing a picture of any sort. But the word could also just mean the content of a picture, or, really, anything anyone sees, whether it's a picture or not: A photograph might contain the image of a person's face, or a drawing might contain the image of a building's floor-plan, or a person might see the image of the moon reflected in water.

A figure is an image or picture designed to convey information. A figure might contain a chart or graph, or a schematic diagram of how some hardware parts fit together. Figures almost by definition have labels and a key and/or a legend identifying the parts and explaining their relationship to each other.

 

[Bramblethorn]

= equals
+ plus
( ) brackets

Strictly speaking, for US English:
() parentheses (sometimes "round brackets" in British English)
[] brackets (or "square brackets" in British)
{} braces (or "curly brackets")
<> angle brackets (though there are many other very similar symbols; see https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/255262/what-is-the-name-of-the-symbols-and. In coding they might also be used as a less-than or greater-than operator, in which case we'd call them "less than"/"greater than" not "angle bracket".)
«» guillemets (rarely used in English, but some European languages use them for quotes)

General English often blurs that distinction and calls them all "brackets" but in programming contexts it may be important to distinguish.

When reading out mathematical content, the brackets/parentheses/etc. are often unspoken. Either the listener figures them out from context, or they're communicated by timing. If I were reading something like this:

x = max(y,z) + 1

I would probably say:

"x equals max y z plus one"

with a small pause between the "y" and "z", and a slightly longer pause before the "plus".

But if I were reading this:

x = max(y,z+1)

I would say:

"x equals max y z plus one"

with a small pause between the "y" and "z", but no pause before the "plus".

If I needed to be very precise, I might say:

"max left parenthesis y comma z plus one right parenthesis"

or maybe:

"max open parenthesis y comma z plus one close parenthesis"

But usually I'd just show somebody the equation/code rather than speaking it in that level of detail.

We help you read drawings, we help you with the calculations

A map is a drawn representation of geography, for example, a map of the world, a road map.

Also has non-geographic uses, e.g. a "process map". Generally indicates a visual way of structuring a large amount of information.

 

[Britva415]

If you want to name the differences between the two flavors of brackets, you would say "left bracket" or in this specific case "left parenthesis" for the one on the left, this one: (
and "right bracket" or "right parenthesis" for the one on the right, this one: )

"Parenthesis" is the singular of "parentheses," which is plural.

Programmers and possibly other technical people like engineers might also say "open parenthesis" for the left one and "close parenthesis" for the right one.

"Brackets" aren't all the same.
[ ] are square braces/brackets
{ } are "curly" braces/brackets
< > are angle brackets (never "braces," in my experience)

< and > are also the "less than" and "greater than" signs.
Not to be confused with ‹ and ›, or with « and », which are the single and double versions of angle quotation marks - not brackets.