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Re:Mathematical Notation Is Awful by catnaroek on Sunday July 31, 2016 @07:01AM (#12196435)
LaTeX... now that is unreadable. Traditional mathematical notation is just fine.
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Re:Mathematical Notation Is Awful by pwdisswordfish on Sunday July 31, 2016 @07:32AM (#12196502)
Well, when I write TeX (and I stick to the "good practice" of defining "semantic" macros for common symbols), I often notice myself finding the TeX source code more readable than the PDF it produces.
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Re:Mathematical Notation Is Awful by bjornsing on Sunday July 31, 2016 @07:02AM (#12196437)
Have you seen x86 machine code? ;P
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Re:Mathematical Notation Is Awful by catnaroek on Sunday July 31, 2016 @07:04AM (#12196443)
Long ago, when I took a computer architecture course, I learnt the 8086's instruction format. I don't remember a single thing about it.
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