alt Hacker NewsI'd love getting rid of all the weird symbols in favor of clear text functions or whatever. As someone who never learnt all the weird symbols its really preventing me from getting into math again... It is just not intuitive.
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gjulianm • yesterday at 3:32 PM
I'm not sure that symbols are the thing actually keeping you away. Clear text functions might not be as clear, as it will be harder to scan and it will still contain names that you might not be familiar with. Those "weird symbols" are not there because people liked to make weird symbols. No one likes them, it's just that it makes things easier to understand.
Those are used since it makes things easier, if you write everything out basically nobody would manage to learn math, that is how it used to be and then everything got shortened and suddenly average people could learn calculus.