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It would be cool if more papers had a glossary for the symbols they use, though. If you're going to use a bunch of single character symbols, at least put somewh
by staticassertion 6y ago
It would be cool if more papers had a glossary for the symbols they use, though. If you're going to use a bunch of single character symbols, at least put somewhere what they are.
- gumby 6y agoThe abstract and introduction to a math paper usually does so, though sometimes they slip up and in then in the middle of the paper you find some strange symbol and have to manually binary search for it.
- slavik81 6y agoI wish I could click on a symbol in an equation and have it either pop up a full name / definition for standard symbols, or scroll to where the variable was defined for paper-specific symbols. When studying papers, I spend way too much time trying to answer questions like, "what was 'n' again?"
- gumby 6y agoI usually write notes as I read anyway — not just marginalia but typically on the back of the first page or in my notebook. Back of the first page is an excellent place for things like that.