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Title: Why didn't Satoshi Nakamoto use LaTeX? Post by: Bizmark13 on January 26, 2015, 03:51:48 AM LaTeX is the standard typesetting system for scientific and technical papers. According to this (http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/24p09t/clean_html_version_of_the_bitcoin_white_paper/ch9bi54) conversation on Reddit, the Bitcoin whitepaper didn't use LaTeX but instead used OpenOffice.org.
Link to the Bitcoin whitepaper: http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Title: Re: Why didn't Satoshi Nakamoto use LaTeX? Post by: btcrich on January 26, 2015, 05:32:59 AM I don't see any significance to this. Does this mean that Satoshi didn't actually have any technical ability? ???
It's also possible that Satoshi was not necessarily a conformist. Title: Re: Why didn't Satoshi Nakamoto use LaTeX? Post by: MineForeman.com on January 26, 2015, 05:43:43 AM Satochi was also a windows programmer and LaTeX is a serious pain in the ass to get working in windows.
Title: Re: Why didn't Satoshi Nakamoto use LaTeX? Post by: bg002h on January 26, 2015, 01:29:29 PM Satochi was also a windows programmer and LaTeX is a serious pain in the ass to get working in windows. The fact that he wasn't comfortable (initially) with Linux and standard things like LaTeX hints at his non programmer/mathematician/physicist background. Title: Re: Why didn't Satoshi Nakamoto use LaTeX? Post by: zebedee on January 26, 2015, 01:42:58 PM Satochi was also a windows programmer and LaTeX is a serious pain in the ass to get working in windows. The fact that he wasn't comfortable (initially) with Linux and standard things like LaTeX hints at his non programmer/mathematician/physicist background. All hail Satoshi. |