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Mathematical notation is a language, and its abuse can be justified if it facilitates communication. Even professional mathematicians do so when writing papers:
by cygx 10y ago
Mathematical notation is a language, and its abuse can be justified if it facilitates communication. Even professional mathematicians do so when writing papers: The audience is not an automated theorem prover, but other humans, and we don't throw syntax errors if we encounter an expression that does not conform to a narrow set of formal rules.