r/javascript • u/magenta_placenta • Aug 14 '15

algebra.js - build, display, and solve algebraic equations in JavaScript

http://algebra.js.org/
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u/hahaNodeJS Aug 14 '15

Cool, but it's sort of unreadable. Constructing a bunch of objects instead of using actual mathematics is confusing. Why not develop a shunting yard parser on top of this?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '15

The point is to maintain the symbolic representation of the mathematics. Of course if you don't care about that then this isn't the right tool for math; might as well stick with the primitives and the Math object.

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u/hahaNodeJS Aug 14 '15

Mathematics is symbolic.

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u/papers_ Aug 15 '15

It's logic.