It would definitely help me! No training in reading math formulas; decades of training reading source code.
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Come to think about it, I learned more about advanced math from the Unreal Engine 2 codebase than I did from college. :)
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sussman did it for classical mechanics and differential geometry https://www.amazon.com/Functional-Differential-Geometry-MIT-Press/dp/0262019345/ …
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Those books are okay (particularly the one on mechanics) but I think they prove that notation is just one small piece.
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I don't think so. 2x/3 = 5y/7 5x/2 = 6 vs. (and (= (+ (/ (* 2 x) 3)) (* 5 y)) 7) (= (- (/ (* 5 x) 2) 6)))
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Maybe it’s just me / my age demographic but I find standard algebra syntax a lot easier to “think” in versus LISP.
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@McCloudStrife Because Calculating is better than scheming? https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87.pdf …@TimSweeneyEpic - 1 more reply
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I guess a + would be formalization. Math notation is often "at the discretion of the author". You'd also get syntax errors.
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As a -, ASCII would probably be way harder to parse. Think about fractions, superscript, sigma, capital pi
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Sadly not everyone has a font suitable to display U+1F922
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