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Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?
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Robin Fairbairns |
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Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it? |
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2 Dec 2008 11:39:31 GMT |
Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> writes:
>Xah Lee wrote:
>> Mathematica is a
>> order of magnitude better because its typesetting system not only
>> passively show math formulas as a pretty printing system, but the
>> markup syntax is also semantically meaningful. (for example, when you
>> type set x^2/x^3, it actually knows that it is x^(2/3)
>
>Hope this isn't so ...
xah lee is obviously an *expert*. perhaps he knows mathematics that
fuddy-duddies like you and me were never taught way back when...
oddly, i didn't register what twaddle it was, first time around ;-)
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge
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