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It is unfortunate, makes it hard to read.[0] Although there's something to be said for a format like that shuts no-one out. Also, the OEIS has been around in di
by yesenadam 6y ago
It is unfortunate, makes it hard to read.[0] Although there's something to be said for a format like that shuts no-one out. Also, the OEIS has been around in different forms since the 1960s - "The database was at first stored on punched cards" – and it would be a huge effort to convert to LaTeX. "As of November 2020, it contains 338,526 sequences."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Line_Encyclopedia_of_Integer_Sequences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Line_Encyclopedia_of_Intege...
[0] Say what you will about LaTeX, it's amazing when you come across a mathematics paper from the pre-LaTeX era presenting complicated mathematical typsetting done...with a typewriter! - it's so very hard to understand and so unpleasant to read in comparison, that usually I don't bother. TeX + LaTeX was such a huge teknulogical advance.