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New graphic notation to express math relationships

POSTED BY: Joseph Anglada
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Hi @Joseph Anglada, did you have any further progress with this?

POSTED BY: Marina Shchitova
POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov
Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: Greg Hurst
POSTED BY: Udo Krause
POSTED BY: Vitaliy Kaurov

Hi Vitaliy;

I have not yet implemented this on any programming language, since my main purpose was to design a notation. However, that would be a good project to implement it in code, and I hope to start a project like that in the future. I know some python and ruby, but I have never used Wolfram Programming Language for projects. I appreciate that suggestion, since I know it is a good language for this purpose.

Also, I would like to find flaws and ambiguity first, before implementing it, because I fear I could loose valuable time implementing something that may not work.

Another question. How do you suggest dealing with self-overlapping branches for large enough expressions? First thing that comes to mind is scaling down the branch size on deeper tree levels.

Good question. I suggest pipes (long lines and L's) to avoid overlapping (you can actually play with the length of the branches), but also variables to replace whole sections of the expression and express them somewhere else (or omit them, if they are not being discussed).

My biggest concerns are redundant variables in the same tree. I know traditional notation would allow them, but I'm not sure they work very well with this notation.

Thanks.

POSTED BY: Joseph Anglada
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