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aghilann

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aghilann··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
This is pretty cool, similar note taking service called Obsidian I use to take notes in Markdown
aghilann··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
The course I'm currently taking makes me uses symbols like the biconditional, xor, and quantifiers. Each symbol requires an entire word to type out but I also frequency have to look at a reference sheet to find the command for each symbol. I just use short hands like "-" for not, "and" for $\land$, etc. I'm sure if I used LaTex more often, I would have most of the commands memorized but I use it infrequency so I almost never remember.
aghilann··on Some tiny personal programs I've written
If any of you know don't know what LaTeX is, it's a way to write documents, it's usually used to write Math and Science research paper's because the of the formatting and symbols LaTex allows for. It has a lot of flexibility, but everything in LaTex requires a lot more effort to type then in something like MS Word. I have to use it for a class I'm currently taking where you have to do super long proofs, I created a short 50 line script where I can enter a mathematical expression using plain text and shorthand's for special symbols and the function returns a string I can copy and paste into LaTex. Saved me and my groupmates multiple hours, I also posted on my class forum so I can save my classmates the pain as well.