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I have similar feelings with music notation too. we never applied our "user experience" standards to mathematical notation and music notation. If these things w
by billconan 10y ago
I have similar feelings with music notation too. we never applied our "user experience" standards to mathematical notation and music notation. If these things were invented today, we might come up with better ideas.
One painful experience I have reading math is telling which variables are "vectors" and which are "scalars". another is the similar looks of certain greek characters and english characters, such as alpha and a.
- GnarfGnarf 10y agoI was just going to mention music. I learned some piano as an adult. I was never able to accept that the same note positions on the treble staff had a different value on the bass staff. Yes, I understand why it's so, it's just terribly user-unfriendly. Also, in keys other than C, I felt that it wouldn't kill them to mark every instance of the sharp and flat notes, instead of doing it once at the beginning and implying it everywhere else.