[smoldesu]

Ha! I used to get pretty pissed-off when I was doing my online math homework, only to find that you couldn't copy/paste the equations into Google. I always thought it was a prevention mechanism, but I guess it was a matter of the technology not being ready yet.

[SilverRed]

Unicode doesn't have many math symbols so you can't copy and paste them like text because they aren't just text.

There are textural representations though which can be copied. They just look ugly.

[jimhefferon]

?Barbara Beeton and others have put a good deal of effort into making Unicode and math work together. http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr25/tr25-15.pdf

[zsmi]

> copy/paste the equations into Google.

Just out of curiosity, why would you want to copy/paste an equation into the Google search bar? Can it solve it?

[zsmi]

So I tried it and it seems Google knows the quadratic equation, but it didn't know how to integrate.

i.e. this worked in the Google search bar "solve 1x^2 - 2x - 3 = 0" this didn't "Integrate e^x from 0 to 1"

Wolfram Alpha did a pretty decent job with the same text string. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Integrate+e%5Ex+from+0...

Looks like you have to go Pro to see the steps though, which is fair enough.