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It would be nice to be able to basically write an equation and have it evaluate. Even a pretty complicated one…

A full programming language would be interesting but pretty alien. As someone who for whatever reason tends to end up with lots of super/sub/subsubscripts (sometimes with multiple dimensions in each!) — variables with, like, more than 6 letters are basically a nightmare when writing by hand. I can’t imagine writing at least with typical variable names, by hand. Although maybe a programming language that looked more like prose would be possible.



>It would be nice to be able to basically write an equation and have it evaluate. Even a pretty complicated one…

I heard mathpix is basically that, math via ocr to solution (haven't used it personally).




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