Re:Mathematical Notation Is Awful
by GFK_of_xmaspast on Sunday July 31, 2016 @10:36AM
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> Gee, it's almost as if we should be writing the words out instead of writing one letter variable names
That's how things were way back in the day, and it was terrible.
I feel the equations are nicer when they are small and so I have sympathy for people using short variables names.
One thing I would like is to see is more use of labels as described here:
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36863/adding-labels-...
Gee, it's almost as if we should be writing the words out instead of writing one letter variable names.
Funny how programmers found this to be good practice and mathematicians still write with a notation that's purposefully unreadable.