back
2 comments
It's still hard if you don't know/recognize the name of a problem and mathematical form is usually easy to disguise.
This is what https://oeis.org/ is for.
Can you Google an equation?
Try using this! http://saskatoon.cs.rit.edu/min/

Instructions at http://saskatoon.cs.rit.edu/min_instructions/

You can to a degree. I've done it a bunch for my math classes. :)

EDIT: Also wolfram alpha

So how does it look? Lots of parentheses? Are the special characters replaced with something?
Write it in TeX, then search for that.