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Re:The future of education is plain text by schoen on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @02:07PM (#14547089)
Funny that it's not ∫(x²/2), though!

OK, I went and looked at the standard and it seems like they're thought about this: they allow input as either ∫(x²/2) or ∫(x^2/2) but they apparently output as ∫(x^2/2) because it's more general and editable, like if you wanted to change the exponent to something that didn't have a predefined Unicode superscript.

Re:The future of education is plain text by mjevans on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @05:27PM (#14548802)
I like that, except I prefer "un-necessary" parenthesis to be explicit about the ordering of operations.

Thus assume only + - and * / are unambiguous, everything else be explicit about ordering.

EG: ∫((x^2)/2)