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by RunSet 1362 days ago
> Worst I've seen so far was one arguing that equations should be written with long variable names (like in programming) instead of single letters and Greek letters.

That could never work. If anything the words comprising mathematical texts should be defined once and thereafter truncated to their first letter to reduce cognitive burden and facilitate greater comprehension.

c = "could"; d = "don't"; f = "for"; g1 = "go"; g2 = "great"; i = "it"; i2 = "i"; m = "me"; s = "see"; w = "works"; w2 = "what"; w3 = "wrong"

i w g2 f m; i2 d s w2 c g1 w3.

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Reference Error: s is not defined.
Thanks for the correction. I will be sure to credit you in the acknowledgements.