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Changing to a better notation is no more humans serving computers than replacing Roman numerals with Arabic ones was humans serving parchment and ink. In both
by noosphr 1y ago
Changing to a better notation is no more humans serving computers than replacing Roman numerals with Arabic ones was humans serving parchment and ink.
In both cases a superior system was held back by people too used to an inferior one to understand why they need something better.
- Almondsetat 1y agoI'm still waiting for an explanation about how this would be superior when writing math documents
- noosphr 1y agoHere is a rather nice video that explains just how bad maths notation is at describing maths operations without a mountain of implicit assumptions about what each expression means: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqlxsSrd-M4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqlxsSrd-M4
- Almondsetat 1y agoThis does not answer my question. For the third time, we are talking about writing a document, not doing maths. At this point I just think you're being obtuse
- noosphr 1y agoIf you aren't doing maths when you're writing or reading a maths document I have no idea what you're doing, but you sure as hell aren't reading it in any sense a mathematician would recognise.