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In mathematical writing variable names are usually single-letter. (This, in fact, makes mathematics easier to read and, especially, compute with.)
by Koshkin 5y ago
In mathematical writing variable names are usually single-letter. (This, in fact, makes mathematics easier to read and, especially, compute with.)
- Gigachad 5y agoI think sometimes this makes sense. In a lot of math, there isn’t actually a reasonable name for the variable. It’s intermediary and has no real meaning other than it’s full definition. But I think sometimes they do take it too far and use single letters when full names could exist.
- bruce343434 5y agoIn this case the author literally gives the full names sometimes. And in fact he leads a paragraph with "Asserting the non-existence (2) of the ciphertext" so whether something gets a one letter variable and some formal logic operator or whether it gets expressed in plain English seems totally arbitrary.