> not everyone thinks in language. But everyone communicates > in language. For communicating mathematical concepts, > language is the best tool we have.

> not everyone thinks in language. But everyone communicates > in language. For communicating mathematical concepts, > language is the best tool we have. You definition of language is really narrow. Perhaps you really want to say that people are only comfortable in their native tongue? Do you consider 'expt' is a language? Actually I have no idea what "expt" is, which means we are not using the same language. I guess that was pow(3) or b*n The inverse function 'log-x-base-b' also confuses me, is it b⍟x or x⍟b By the way, I'm speaking in unix man and a programming language there. People need to understand notation is a language. In you three lines of functions, you've used (),= four notational symbols, without which your statement would be uselessly long. People do communicate in languages. Math notations happen to be the native tongue of people using math (they were taught at first in schools). For people speaking in that different language, the following are the same: bⁿ=x b^n=x pow(b,n)==x b*n=x Edit: reformat because HN eats my power function.