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Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> writes:
> Xah Lee wrote:
>> Mathematica is a
>> order of magnitude better because its typesetting system not only
>> passively show math formulas as a pretty printing system, but the
>> markup syntax is also semantically meaningful. (for example, when you
>> type set x^2/x^3, it actually knows that it is x^(2/3) 
>
> Hope this isn't so ...

I suspect of all the reasons to prefer Pari/GP:

$ gp -q
? printtex(x^2/x^3)
\frac{1}{x}

over Mathematica, that this isn't one of them. It's a reason
to prefer Xah in ones killfile, though.

Phil
-- 
I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was 
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detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.