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And in codebases you can always search/grep for function names, so it easy to find the definition of everything. In math it is a strange symbol in a PDF and yo
by benibela 5y ago
And in codebases you can always search/grep for function names, so it easy to find the definition of everything.
In math it is a strange symbol in a PDF and you cannot search for at all
- BlueTemplar 5y agoThis is more a limitation of computers and search engines. The move to using more Unicode like in Julia (and hopefully away from PDF to (m)HTML) should make this issue better.
- benibela 5y agoIt is also because the notation with single symbols is too short In code someone would write "lightspeed" and that can be searched. In a paper, they write "c" and when you search for it you find thousands of unrelated things.