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This seems like it would also apply quite well to variable naming in programming. Naming a variable 'a' just because it's frequently used would be misguided.
by Yahivin 15y ago
This seems like it would also apply quite well to variable naming in programming. Naming a variable 'a' just because it's frequently used would be misguided.
- Egregore 15y agoYes, but there is a tradition (at least in some languages) to name cycle variable as i for example: for (int i=0;i<n;i++).
- Yahivin 15y agoThis seems to bring additional evidence to the information content hypothesis: because it is common and expected it does not have a high information density.