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Are you one of those people who TeX's their notes while sitting in class? I'm always amazed by that. Wish I could pull it off :) Long calculations are a pain,
by RK 17y ago
Are you one of those people who TeX's their notes while sitting in class? I'm always amazed by that. Wish I could pull it off :)
Long calculations are a pain, but I find doing it by hand is good, so that I can go back and find mistakes. I tend to use one long scratch pads, so that I have a sort of ongoing, live revision control. When I use LaTeX I tend to erase stuff, because I want LaTex to look nice, and of course the erased parts might have been useful later.
- yummyfajitas 17y agoI never actually developed note-taking skills. After a semester or two, I gave up on even trying. Basically, my calculations usually look like this: interesting quantity < mess[0] < mess[1] < ... < mess[n] < final result I've found it's very easy to copy mess[j] to a new line, edit, and repeat. It's harder to rewrite mess[j] on paper. Storing complicated expressions in emacs registers is also quite nice.