[Blindmath] Nemeth questions and results of Using the Perkins

[Ben Humphreys]

Susan,

As I understood from a web document I believe you posted recently, 
Nemeth and computer ASCII are pretty compatible.

Why wouldn't a braille display work with Nemeth?

Also, another thing I'm not clear on with the Nemeth is the strange 
representation for =, (, ).  Why is it that those need to be coded as 
dot k etc when they could be represented as their actual braille characters?

Finally, as long as greek letters are not used, what is the benefit 
of Nemeth over computer ASCII?  All the normal expressions like a + 
b >= (c^2) / d (such as you might write in Javascript) seem easy 
enough to produce in computer ASCII.
Please forgive my ignorance; I'm trying to figure this out at 
40-something without the benefit of a TVI or a 6-year-old's spongy brain.

Thank you

Ben

At 03:43 PM 2/8/2012, you wrote:
>It can, but the math will not appear in Nemeth code if this is what you
>want.
>
>Sharon
>
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>From: blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Julian, Kate
>Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 1:08 PM
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>Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Results of Using the Perkins
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>I didn't know the bn can act as a display from the computer, that is
>interesting.
>
>kj
>
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>Behalf Of Alex Hall
>Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 12:01 PM
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>Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Results of Using the Perkins
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>Why not use the computer straight away, with the brailleNote as a display?
>This, of course, assumes the screen reader supports the bn.
>
>On 2/8/12, Julian, Kate <KJulian at bluevalleyk12.org> wrote:
> > OK, so picture this, my student is sitting next to me, his BrailleNote
> > is in his lap as his calculator (he has agreed that he will use the
> > computer's calculator instead), the computer monitor and keyboard in
> > front of him so he can key in his work and answers. The Perkins is
> > also on the desk along with the necessary paper. Then there is the
> > braille version of the test, his brailled test answers, and now he is
>trying to make test corrections. YIKES!
> > We found that he did complete his algebra better using the Perkins and
> > then transferring his answers to Word so we can read them. But this
> > method is tedious. I am looking at LiveMath Maker and Scientific
> > Notebook.  Thank you everybody for your suggestions!
> >
> > Have a great day - Kate
> >
> >
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