alt Hacker NewsThose 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.
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zwnow • yesterday at 2:45 PM
Yea because hieroglyphs are more understandable than the name of a function
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There has to be a happy medium between the tersness of the current notation systems and the verbosity of code-like expressions. We just need to rethink this so more people can learn it. Math still stands a bit like writing did in ancient culture. It's a domain reserved for a few high priests inducted into the craft and completely inaccessible to everyone else.