[OS X TeX] MathPix or snipping-tool

[Lee Witt]

" Desmos looks like a fun and useful rabbit hole, which is a bad thing on
the last day of my Spring Break when I have so much to do before tomorrow."

Good description. I've found it most useful for a few classes: it makes it
very easy for students to do "what happens if I change this" work during
class. In the survey classes where business (and some other) students are
introduced to basic linear programming the animation feature allows
demonstrations of the objective function hitting a vertex as the final
point of a feasible region. Lots more to it, but is is an easy to use tool
with lots of flexibility.

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:54 AM Gary L. Gray <euler at psu.edu> wrote:

> On Mar 10, 2018, at 8:27 PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
>
> I suspect we could be the most help to the author by writing a small
> document for MacTextras
> with a link to the program web page and to the App Store. That way the
> author would get
> clear statistics from Apple on the number of users, but they would have
> our endorsement.
> Indeed a small document could show in pictures what it does, and that it
> is free, so users
> would be tempted to try it.
>
>
> All,
>
> I just did a little more digging on the “it is free” part. Interestingly,
> it is free and seems to allow unlimited usage on the Mac, but it is also
> more limited on the Mac. On iOS, it will also solve equations, plot
> functions, and more -- all from a photo. The catch is that the iOS version
> allows 50 scans and 1 solve for free and then it is $10/month for a
> subscription (it uses WolframAlpha for the solving and
> https://www.desmos.com for the visualizations). When I downloaded it to
> my phone some time ago it was free -- the subscription model must be a
> relatively new development.
>
> One more thing ... Desmos looks like a fun and useful rabbit hole, which
> is a bad thing on the last day of my Spring Break when I have so much to do
> before tomorrow.
>
> Gary
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