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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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