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My favorite part of AsciiMath is the concise matrix syntax and also just using quotes to write normal words: (-1)^n = { [ 1 , n " even"
by xeonmc 4y ago
My favorite part of AsciiMath is the concise matrix syntax and also just using quotes to write normal words:
(-1)^n = {
[ 1 , n " even" ],
[ -1 , n " odd" ],
[ cosn+isinn , "otherwise" ]
:}
R(theta) = (
[ costheta , -sintheta ] ,
[ sintheta , costheta ]
)
It makes typing simple equations very simple, and if it gets complicated I could always write more explicitly/fall back to latex syntax which it parses as well.
It's kinda similar to the philosophy of Markdown -- make simple things easy and allow an escape hatch for when you need to be unambiguous.