[rescue] octane question

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:28:37PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:

>   Paper/pencil?  Eeeek, why?

Two reasons.  It is a faster way to pay bills when your bills are simple.

Second, it is at this time a superior way to work on math, program flow ideas,
and in general other things that require near realtime capturing of graphics
from head to other medium.  Basically, Mathematica is a great way to test 
ideas, but I can't "think" in Mathematica, and I think faster than my palm
can keep up with.

Now, another project I've been kicking around is a idea for a new type of 
symbolic math system.  The initial revision would be handwriting recognition
of some sort (probably a modified graffiti) coupled to a system like Maxima
and gnuplot typed together with a custom front end.  Basically the new stuff
would be how you manipulate the equations, graphs, et al, on the screen in
a more intuitive way that mathematica.  IE, emulating paper, except that you
don't need to do the math in your head.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd