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0 pointsradford-neal3y ago0 comments

Yes, it could be useful, if seen as a natural language front-end to a symbolic math package.

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buescher3y ago· 2 in thread

That's been done - Wolfram Alpha.

The fact that it's been done is no reason not to do it again. Even if two implementations were somehow a bad thing, Wolfram Alpha is the closedest of closed source, and replacing it with something auditable is a win for science.

buescher3y ago

Sure, but nobody in academia is going to get anywhere describing their work as writing a replacement for Excel, right?

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