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Re:75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, o... by FakeComments on Saturday January 05, 2019 @11:52AM (#18832643)
They did what you suggested.

“Distal phalanges” are the far away phalanges, which are the bones that are in an array like a phalanx in the extremities.

The problem is that language changed after that, and the expectation for those words to make intuitive sense changed in the broader culture doctors were pulled from.

They’re then faced with having to rename everything, breaking with the established record and creating confusion or having to explicitly teach the names.

I’m also curious what you think is redundant in math notation.

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Re:75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, o... by Retric on Saturday January 05, 2019 @12:44PM (#18832982)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notation_for_differentiation

Taking classes that use different notation for the same thing is annoying.

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Re:75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, o... by robbiep on Saturday January 05, 2019 @01:52PM (#18833449)
Your example is not analogous to medicine - there is consistent and highly specific naming conventions for a reason
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Re:75% of med students are on antidepressants, stimulants, o... by Retric on Saturday January 05, 2019 @07:47PM (#18835511)
It’s not generally ambiguous in math, and a similar situation exists when a patient describes his symptoms using different words.

That said, I started with: ‘Math is arguably worse with redundant notations for the same thing.’

He asked “I’m also curious what you think is redundant in math notation.”

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