I think I found an Anomaly

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I was copying and pasting random equations from non-Desmos laTex and I found an “invisible“ variable that does wierd stuff in desmos. Graph here:ANOMALY | Desmos

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You are right …
there’s a variable corresponding to an empty \mathbf{ }
and one can actually do weird stuff like this: 2+1 = 1
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/q123hayube

If you move the slider the value of the expression changes even if the variable is not visible
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Wait what??? Also in Loumen_Cai’s post I couldn’t move the slider on or past 0 or it would just instantly bump to -10, also very weird is sometimes the slider just gets destroyed when I move it, and when I click the blue button to make it again a glitched expression box (which I did message Daniel_Grubbs about). As soon as you update it in anyway (type a character, even move around using arrow keys or shift+arrow keys) will remove the error. Pretty cool!!!

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I found another one: Anomaly 2 | Desmos Most anomalies seem to come from the underlying laTex input that allows for wonky equations in desmos

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I am pretty sure you can set something like \mul as a variable too. Plus, that is pretty simple. \overline would work like \alpha or \beta, all just special variables.