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Re: Math Notepad

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Post by hoistbypetard » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 12:43 AM UTC

HoldOnAMinute wrote: post #4

We had this in the early 1990's, it was called Mathematica [0] [0] - https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/06/there-was-a-time...

It was eye-wateringly expensive and required a high-end system, though. It was good, and I liked it too, but it's not the same as being usable from pretty much anywhere for $0.

Re: Math Notepad

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Post by WillAdams » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 12:43 AM UTC

meken wrote: post #15

I was using Apple Notes for some “math thinking” the other week. A killer feature for me would be an easy way to input various math Unicode characters (I was just copy and pasting them).

There are various stylus-based tools which do that sort of thing:

https://www.inftyproject.org/en/software.html

(I used to use the math input palette w/ a Wacom ArtZ on my NeXT Cube for transcribing math documents in college)

Re: Math Notepad

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Post by avel » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 12:51 AM UTC

mikeocool wrote: post #18

If your in the Apple ecosystem, Soulver is a similar app to this that is really great. I still like it better than the math built into notes for anything beyond basics.

$39?! I'll stick with qalc!

Re: Math Notepad

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Post by iterance » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 5:35 PM UTC

HoldOnAMinute wrote: post #7

kingkongjaffa wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just running right there and re-rendering in the browser you didn't.

We got alone fine for decades without browsers.

Mathematicians used to send each other letters in the mail until very recently. Perhaps I do not understand what you mean?