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I'm pretty sure it's damn near impossible to do complicated mathematics without a pen and pad. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295110 http://news.ycombinat
by DabAsteroid 18y ago
I'm pretty sure it's damn near impossible to do complicated mathematics without a pen and pad.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295110 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=295110
I [Thad Starner] get much more down than anybody writing on pen and paper, because you can write, at maximum, about 25 words per minute. I can type 70. So I am much more complete in my notes. I also type LaTeX math notation. So that means if you have something highly technical, you will get book-quality-formatted notes out of me.
- hugh 18y agoI'm talking about doing mathematics, not just taking down the notation. Sure, I can type LaTeX too, but once I've typed an equation it still looks like a mess. The structure isn't obvious. It's not intuitively obvious how to eliminate some terms and rearrange it, the way it would be if I were writing it down longhand.
- DabAsteroid 18y agoWould I be correct in supposing that you tried Mathematica?