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A comment on Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic for programming (2014).

Re:Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic f... by Papirola on Monday February 24, 2020 @11:10AM (#22405302)
The post is from 2014. I wonder what progress was made since.
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Re:Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic f... by NikkiA on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:19PM (#22406668)
Well, I'd hope he fixed the 10^11 to 10^-11 in the excel sheet, but given he hasn't updated the page to reflect that, I'm not hopeful.

Although, perhaps it's deliberate as a canary test for those that intend to defend non-traditional mathematical notation in programming.

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Re:Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic f... by atomoton on Monday February 24, 2020 @12:02PM (#22405838)
Python3 Allows you to put underscores in numbers for legibility:

a = 100_000 b = 1_000_000

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Re:Legible Mathematics: Sketches of interactive arithmetic f... by Someone on Monday February 24, 2020 @01:41PM (#22406979)
That started at least with Ada, in 1979 (https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/403959).

Traditional FORTRAN ignores all spaces, so one can write a million as 1 000 000 there, C++14 allows apostrophes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Data_versus_...)

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