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A simpler example:

    $ lax -c 'x ** 2'
    \sqrt[2]{x}

While the output should be:

    x^2.

If you wanted to use sqrt, it would have to be:

    \sqrt[\frac{1}{2}]{x}

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The output for x 2 was chosen to print out \sqrt because it is possible to have x ^2 in python whose output would be x ^ 2 as expected. The idea is using to print long sqrt so advantaging this behavior. Although i haven't implemented x^2 planning to do it next week with the new improvements.

If you change the meanings of symbols then the description becomes "write lax, output latex".

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