About this website:

This was made by Micah Halter, an eight grader at Acera as his IMP project from September 2025 - January 2026.
The project is entitled Creating a website with math on a raspberry pi!
The first thing I did while creating the project was creating the prime factors page WorkNowThatItIsNotInTextEditPleasePleasePlease.html. It wasn't opening with file:// when I tried to write the html page in TextEdit, but it did in VSCODE. This was in firefox, by the way.
The next thing was following a tutorial on installing a distro of debian linux designed for the raspberry pi on the raspberrt pi.
Next, I created the fraction simplify page. I kept adding things, like complex number support and stuff like that, so I decided to try to atuomate algebra.
This ended up being my downfall. Here is the paragraph I wrote for my trifold poster:

This is the current and longest phase. I realized that the fraction simplifier was going to evolve into something that could just do algebra for me so I decided to make it intentional. Ms. Emi introduced me to the Shunting-Yard Algorithm which converts normal infix notation into reverse polish notation, where 2 + 4 would be written as 2, 4, +. This eliminated the need for parentheses. Then I made a tokenizer, to get an input string into what is really meant, so 426 would be one token, as would 4, 2, and 6. Then I tried to make it so that it would simplify. It was very hard to do in reverse polish so I am currently working on doing it in regular infix notation.
Even disregarding parentheses, and even spending every free moment on it at the last minute, it was not completed. As of the time of writing, it has an inconceivable bug, and its kind of super annoying.

Inspiration came from two projects I had done in the past, the first being installing linux on a 2001 G3 macbook clamshell, and the other collaboratively making a massive spreadsheet with a bunch of math tools that I was using in math class for the 2024-2025 school year.


Archive of my TriFold poster on IMPposium: (With added links)

Creating a website with math on a raspberry pi!


Micah Halter



Phase 1 - simple webpage


The first thing I did was create a webpage that would factor a number into its prime factors so I would definitely have something to display at IMPposium.

Phase 2 - Raspberry Pi


Next I installed a version of debian linux for raspberry pis on the Pi that was provided by Mr. David. After some struggle, the simple page I made got on and it can connect.

Phase 3 - More pages


I made an index.html and something to simplify fractions

Phase 4 - Automating Algebra


This is the current and longest phase. I realized that the fraction simplifier was going to evolve into something that could just do algebra for me so I decided to make it intentional. Ms. Emi introduced me to the Shunting-Yard Algorithm which converts normal infix notation into reverse polish notation, where 2 + 4 would be written as 2, 4, +. This eliminated the need for parentheses. Then I made a tokenizer, to get an input string into what is really meant, so 426 would be one token, as would 4, 2, and 6. Then I tried to make it so that it would simplify. It was very hard to do in reverse polish so I am currently working on doing it in regular infix notation.
My vision was a publicly accessible website that people in the Acera community and beyond could access to get help with their math problems. It was a successor project to two I have done in the past; the first was installing linux on a 2001 Macbook and the second was making a large spreadsheet with math tools. My vision was a bit too large, and it evolved into just trying to automate algebra.

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