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Re:Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Pyth... by justmyname on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:12AM (#24350483)
As I see on the demo, it evaluates the expression itself. There is a ton of possibilities to misinterpret the domain of operations involved. Moreover, how should we control the details to which it should unwind the undergoing calculations?

That way of work seems a bit too optimistic to me.

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Re:Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Pyth... by cmferster on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:32PM (#24354880)
Jupyter, and ultimately Python, evaluates the expressions. handcalcs just displays the resulting information with variable values from the Python locals dict.
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Re:Handcalcs: Automatically render Latex equations from Pyth... by aargh_aargh on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @02:38AM (#24350619)
Fair point. It also provides the %%tex magic that gets you the source LaTeX snippet. May save you 80% of the effort, the rest you can tweak manually.
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