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> The second time I have a pen and a highlighter where I actually label the mathematical symbols with arrows and words (using the textual descriptions). Gee, i
by iopq 10y ago
> The second time I have a pen and a highlighter where I actually label the mathematical symbols with arrows and words (using the textual descriptions).
Gee, it's almost as if we should be writing the words out instead of writing one letter variable names.
Funny how programmers found this to be good practice and mathematicians still write with a notation that's purposefully unreadable.
- papaf 10y agoI feel the equations are nicer when they are small and so I have sympathy for people using short variables names. One thing I would like is to see is more use of labels as described here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36863/adding-labels-to-a-formula https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/36863/adding-labels-...
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago> Gee, it's almost as if we should be writing the words out instead of writing one letter variable names That's how things were way back in the day, and it was terrible.