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Re:KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web by Loic on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:08AM (#24744400)
Working daily with a blind scientist, I am translating the equations from old papers without good OCR in Fortran to discuss them. I haven't found a better way, but we would definitely appreciate more accessible content.
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Re:KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web by neolog on Sunday October 11, 2020 @06:11AM (#24744794)
You're translating into fortran? Why?
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Re:KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web by Loic on Sunday October 11, 2020 @07:41AM (#24745118)
Because Fortran is FORmula TRANslator and it is very easy to express complex equations with it. It the lingua franca of scientific computing.
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Re:KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web by neolog on Sunday October 11, 2020 @11:50PM (#24751214)
TIL. I'm curious what Fortran buys you over, say, Julia.
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Re:KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web by Loic on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:53PM (#24757244)
We simply master Fortran because of all the number crunching we are doing, nothing more.
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Re:KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web by TheRealKing on Monday October 12, 2020 @03:32PM (#24758470)
because it is powerful, fast, simple, object oriented, while being natively parallel, on both shared and distributed architecture.
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