Version 0 of Mathematical notebook

Arjen Markus (18 december 2003) I am mildly proud to present a first (underdocumented) version of a mathematical notebook.

After at least 10000 seconds of hard labour, meticulous programming and self-defying testing, it works! I had to use the most cunning techniques I could muster:

pre-coding design phase (meaning I wrote some scribbles on a piece of paper on the way home)
rapid application development (meaning I was anxious to see it grow, so I ran it as soon as something could show up)
code reuse by multiple copy-paste-edit cycles (I hardly ever start from scratch, but simply copy an existing file into a new directory)
visual testing (meaning I tried to see that it did what I wanted it to do)

This was all needed to meet my deadline: the end of the evening.

But I did it!

Below you will find the first fruits of this herculean achievement. Enjoy!

Okay, what is it?

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