"Chinese official," 1580s, via Port. mandarim or Du. mandorijn from Malay mantri, from Hindi mantri "councilor, minister of state," from Skt. mantri, nom. of mantrin- "advisor," from mantra "counsel," from PIE base *men- "to think" (see mind). Form influenced in Portuguese by mandar "to command, order." Used generically for the several grades of Chinese officials; sense of "chief dialect of Chinese" (spoken by officials and educated people) is from c.1600. The type of small, deep-colored orange so called from 1771, from resemblance of its color to that of robes worn by mandarins.
Not only is this a great way of writing reports (you can also export to PDF, or even write in LaTeX instead of Markdown), but it's a very nice way of organizing your code. I now do all my development in this mode, even for scripts where I'm not interested in the final report. I like the ease of documenting, the clear visual separation of the different code blocks, and the ease of pressing Alt+Cmd C to execute a single code block.
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