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We use i, x, y, etc. all the time as variable names as professional programmers. So you're sort of arguing against a straw man there, almost no programmer woul
by mattmanser 6y ago
We use i, x, y, etc. all the time as variable names as professional programmers.
So you're sort of arguing against a straw man there, almost no programmer would expect you to name such a concept 'arbitraryNumber2', we would also name it x or y if it made sense in the code.
- IngoBlechschmid 6y agoSorry, I didn't want to argue against a straw man. You are right. I just wanted to indicate that in mathematics, we are much more often in such generic situations than in programming. Accordingly, I wanted to argue that the increased brevity in mathematics is to some extent to be expected.