[FRIAM] A question for tomorrow

[Russell Standish]

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 12:52:02AM +0000, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Russell writes:
> 
> < However, conversely, there appear to interesting results that indicate P=NP for random oracle machines. There is some controversy over this, though, and personally, I've never been able to follow the proofs in the area :). >
> 
> Minimally, why is LaTeX the preferred format and not, say, Mathematica?   At least the latter makes it complete and computable.


Convince Stephen Wolfram to open source Mathematica (or at least the
typesetting bits of it), then there might be some chance of
this. Otherwise, not so much.

LaTeX got its head start by not only being superior to its
competition, but also by being open source from the get go (unusual
for the time). When LaTeX came out, the only thing better (at least
according to some people) were incredibly expensive desktop publishing
packages worth $10K or more (back when $10K was worth more than double
that now).


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