> Its actually useful. In our office we have people from three different teams using it near daily. Out of choice. As do many kids in our network for homework. For a recently released product effectively in beta thats insane.
Yep.
I asked it to make a worksheet for students to practice converting numbers written in scientific notation back to "standard" format.
So, it gave me a bunch of output like:
6.2x10^-6: ___________________
What annoyed me about this is that it used the letter "x" instead of the proper multiplication symbol "×" and it used the hyphen (-) instead of the appropriate "minus" sign (−).
So, I told it to use proper typographic symbols, and it did!
It converted "6.2x10^-6" to "6.2×10^−6"
It even told me the Unicode numbers it was using for × and −.
Then I asked it to re-generate the worksheet using LaTeX and the siunitx package.
It nailed it.
It's like someone just handed me a turbo-charged assistant. Yeah, I have to make sure my assistant hasn't gone insane, but it has already spared me a ton of grunt work.
Yep.
I asked it to make a worksheet for students to practice converting numbers written in scientific notation back to "standard" format.
So, it gave me a bunch of output like:
6.2x10^-6: ___________________
What annoyed me about this is that it used the letter "x" instead of the proper multiplication symbol "×" and it used the hyphen (-) instead of the appropriate "minus" sign (−).
So, I told it to use proper typographic symbols, and it did!
It converted "6.2x10^-6" to "6.2×10^−6"
It even told me the Unicode numbers it was using for × and −.
Then I asked it to re-generate the worksheet using LaTeX and the siunitx package.
It nailed it.
It's like someone just handed me a turbo-charged assistant. Yeah, I have to make sure my assistant hasn't gone insane, but it has already spared me a ton of grunt work.