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> I think Barbie summed it up best: "Math is hard."
>
> Even most people who are good with computers find math hard. There are
> many programmers who have trouble thinking in recursive/dynamic
> programming terms, or who have trouble with the sort of simple 3D vector
> math found in ga
> I suppose that there may be too few of us for whom a lack of MathML
> makes a
> difference to constitute a “market” to be worth ubiquitous
> implementation. How
> does www.backspaces.net handle mathematical representations?
Hi Ross, good to hear an interesting struggle on this topic. Maybe
Oops .. I forgot another interesting stunt, ASCIIMathML, a JavaScript
solution.
ASCIIMathML.js uses JavaScript to input a stylized (LaTeX) math
stream which the browser then changes into math notation on the fly:
http://www1.chapman.edu/~jipsen/mathml/asciimath.html
I'm pretty impressed wi
Owen Densmore wrote:
>There are a few sites that do not use MathML, but do a reasonable job
>of building equations via HTML features like tables, sub, super,
>font, and so on.
>
>
There's also the option of LaTeX on the server side, generating bitmaps
in inline HTML. Not a beautiful solu
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Martin,
The intellectual desert is vast.
Thinking is hard. Most people dislike thinking. Thinking scientifically
and mathematically is even harder. Addressing complex problems is even
harder.
It's a sad fact.
That's why they hire people like us; to
Melodyhound should delight the mathematicians among you, especially its use
of the "Parsons Code," or "melodic contour," which is able to identify
melodies quite accurately just by knowing the sequence of rising or falling
pitches: http://www.melodyhound.com/melodic_contour.0.html
You can also
Rob,
It threw me off just a bit that the first two sentences of mine quoted
below were taken from a larger paragraph and placed in reverse order...
but I think you're saying I appear to be struggling with the root
problem of self reference you go on to discuss. Sometimes I come up
with wacky anal
