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Re:Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007) by fujinghg on Sunday February 09, 2025 @04:22AM (#42989518)
No they didn't use them because they ran out. You know nothing about mathematics clearly. There are conventions to keep it concise. Some definitions of simple things would be unreadable if you used longer names. Consider the quotient rule:

    k'(x)=(g(x)f'(x)-f(x)g'(x))/(g(x)^2
Or in your world apparently

    quotient'(expression)=(left_expression(expression)right_expression'(expression)-right_expression(expression)left_expression'(expression))/(left_expression(expression)^2
Yeah, no.

Surprisingly I've just gone through the last 30 pages of mathematical work I've done and there's a couple of π in ∫ there and that's it.

Re:Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007) by BeetleB on Sunday February 09, 2025 @11:35AM (#42991690)
I'm sorry, but you used ' to denote differentiation.

To have it his way, you'd right:

(derivative(right_expression))(expression)

and so on.

Clear as mud!

Re:Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007) by fujinghg on Sunday February 09, 2025 @11:57AM (#42991831)
Good point. Urgh.

Perhaps he's a LISP programmer and has some spare brackets floating around :-)