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ashark on July 21, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Did Anyone Do Math in Roman Numerals?

Code's easy for me (unless "mathy" in appearance like Haskell) but mathematical notation's always made me feel dyslexic.

I'd love to see this beauty or clarity or whatever that people find in mathematics, but I've never caught even a hint of it. Seems like it needs a good IDE to make up for deficiencies in its language.

noir_lord on July 21, 2017 | [–]

Have you see SageMath[0]?

That allows you to use Python inside a mathematical environment and it's amazing.

Saved my bacon a few times when I need to translate maths to code and I need to poke it a bit to get an understanding of how it works.

[0]http://www.sagemath.org/

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