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axby | 4 years ago

Thanks! And that is so cool! It looks like the intended use case of this is to generate documents or short snippets of LaTeX, but not have to hard code the answers?

I wish I had something like this back when I actually wrote reports and stuff in LaTeX. Now I barely have any use case for my own calculator, except occasional unit conversions.

The use case that I had in mind for mine was electrical engineering students, where I had to often use complex numbers in polar form, in degrees, for circuit questions. My calculator at the time had no obvious way of entering polar complex numbers in degrees, I ended up typing things like `e^(i*angle/1r)`, where the r was "radian", and when the calculator was in degrees mode, "1 r" would evaluate to "180/pi".

It was also cumbersome to write long expressions for. It showed something like 24 characters per line, enough that I'd often get multi line expressions. These expressions would be full of brackets, and sometimes I'd hit enter and not be sure if I missed a bracket. (Hence my goal of having a LaTeX display to show you what you're entering).

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fish45|4 years ago

Yeah, I made it to do my chemistry homework where a lot of problems were duplicated with different numbers. The truth is that it's not well tested outside of that though so it's hard to trust for complicated stuff. I might end up using yours :)