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Re:Matrix Calculus by yorwba on Sunday November 19, 2017 @09:06AM (#15733931)
I believe that LaTeX/MathML absolutely do belong in a CAS, just not as the primary means of interaction. (I.e. you do your work in the CAS's own language and then export to LaTeX.)

But maybe your example can convince me otherwise. Could you show the specific LaTeX code in question and describe how your program mishandled it?

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Re:Matrix Calculus by qubex on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:49PM (#15734944)
I had set myself the target of implementing the Risch Algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risch_algorithm) in SymPy (3) but the event was so embarrassing I deleted my code and never published it publicly.

I’m not a programmer. I erred in trying to do a programmer’s job. Also, I discovered why Nicholas Nassim Taleb has the reputation for being rather uncharitable (but deep down I feel like I deserved it, because hey, I stated a mathematical untruth).

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