Re: wikipedia's (ascii) math notation? emacs easy-way to translate it?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> writes:
>Xah Lee wrote:
>> Mathematica is a
>> order of magnitude better because its typesetting system not only
>> passively show math formulas as a pretty printing system, but the
>> markup syntax is also semantically meaningful. (for example, when you
>> type set x^2/x^3, it actually knows that it is x^(2/3) 
>
>Hope this isn't so ...

xah lee is obviously an *expert*.  perhaps he knows mathematics that
fuddy-duddies like you and me were never taught way back when...

oddly, i didn't register what twaddle it was, first time around ;-)
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Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge