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Re:Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics by benibela on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:34AM (#30149066)
And in codebases you can always search/grep for function names, so it easy to find the definition of everything.

In math it is a strange symbol in a PDF and you cannot search for at all

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Re:Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics by BlueTemplar on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:46AM (#30149238)
This is more a limitation of computers and search engines. The move to using more Unicode like in Julia (and hopefully away from PDF to (m)HTML) should make this issue better.
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Re:Examples of common false beliefs in mathematics by benibela on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @04:10PM (#30169328)
It is also because the notation with single symbols is too short

In code someone would write "lightspeed" and that can be searched. In a paper, they write "c" and when you search for it you find thousands of unrelated things.

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