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​I absolutely love Desmos, let me say that first: it's powerful and capable. I have been using it on a golfing website for the purpose of accomplishing tasks in the lowest amount of bytes. I recently used it to calculate the position of a point given three input points and three distances here, and have noticed something. The instructions I had to give in order for there to be a lack of ambiguity was large, to say the least.​​

I wanted to write a little webpage on GitHub that would allow for the input of a text representations of equations yielded by copying them (say, \sin x+\cos y=x) separated by newlines. Having this functionality would be vastly helpful in the use of recreational programming, but I realize that the scope of people that would use this feature is limited.

This is why I wish to be a partner of Desmos: to allow Desmos to be used more readily in programming. This is what I would do with it:

    Set up a github page (i.e. something.github.io/pagename) that would contain an instance of the Desmos calculator and a textarea element;
    allow the user to input text in said textarea and click a button that would transform the text into equations;
    and have a shortened version of the language that makes code more concise and, well, short.

I thank you for reading this email, and I hope you give due consideration to my proposal. (I do not know the nature of partnerships with Desmos, thus the rather specific terms on which I agree with. Please specify the scope of what I would be able to dowith the API in hand.)

​Sincerely,
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Conor​ O'Brien​

My GitHub and StackExchange profile.