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KAS
JavaScript2014–2017
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KAS

A lightweight JavaScript CAS for comparing expressions and equations.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
115GitHub stars
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What it is

A lightweight JavaScript CAS for comparing expressions and equations.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-09-16 00:51:11 UTC to 2017-11-18 12:18:11 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I'm with cosmic_ape regarding the recommendation for SymPy. Write the two lines as symbolic expressions `expr1` and `expr2` then run `simplify(expr1-expr2)` to check if the answer is zero. If you want to start with LaTeX then the parser from this library might be useful: https://github.com/Khan/KAS
In Matrix Calculus
There aren't any plans at the moment. We've struggled with this problem before, and wrote something similar with https://github.com/khan/KAS/ but we've never worked at doing something inline. We use MathQuill in a couple places, which does the input decently (writing works, but typing something like x^2_2 gives you x^{2_2} not x^2_2), but the output doesn't look great. It's hard to do what the user wants, have clickable bits, and still have good looking output.
In KaTeX: Math typesetting for the web

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