@nimius thanks, I hadn't seen that. So it sits in between the keyboard and whatever field you're typing into? I think this solves a different problem to the one I'm thinking about: since it just produces unicode characters, it'd be limited to single-line expressions. I'd like to be able to produce all sorts of math typesetting: arrays, systems of equations, proper fractions.
@mathr yes, that's a good point, and that thought crossed my mind when I wrote the bit about how \over is more like how mathematicians speak. I think there's a big overlap! Generic speech recognition software would probably do similar things with inserting unpredictable punctuation or messing with spacing
I've done some thinking about how you type mathematical notation on a mobile device, where you basically only have the alphabet and a couple of punctuation characters available on the keyboard.
Your thoughts, please!
https://checkmyworking.com/posts/2022/05/thinking-about-typing-mathematical-notation-on-a-phone/
@pkra oh right, forgot about those
@pkra good idea! done
@christianp
This is the closest thing to my field I could come up with... maybe it would be even better if we could change the image, but thanks for sharing!
@esoterica this might be my favourite paper title of all
I've just found my old mathsjam ideas file, and it had a link to Gurmeet's Delightful Puzzles page: https://gurmeet.net/puzzles/
They are indeed delightful!
ugly parser hack
From an old Donald Knuth paper, discovered a scheme for implementing operator precedence that was used in the first Fortran compiler:
Just do a search-and-replace of + with )))+(((, of * with ))*((, etc., then put ((())) around the whole thing. More parens = lower precedence operator. Since this is purely textual preprocessing, the compiler doesn't need to know about operator precedence after that. Surprisingly, it actually works!
UK maths pals: The Man Who Knew Infinity, the Ramanujan biopic, is on iPlayer for the next 25 days
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0011wzr
#NowListening to this joyful nonsense by Alice Babs: Puerto Rico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDXu63l4JMM
Made it! The tunnels felt much shorter than I expected.
Got the kinesiology tape in the way, and also popped into wilkos to get some trouser clips and a phone holder for my handlebar. Resisted the temptation to pop into Maccy D's, but might not on the way back!
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