Puckdropper wrote:
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Going off-task here... The trouble with scientific mathematics is that
scientists don't realize that implicit multiplication is NOT worth the
cost. Without implicit multiplication, variables could be multiple
letters, rather than a letter and maybe subscripts. So instead of K, we
could have SPRING_CONSTANT (or is it k?). Implicit multiplication makes
things harder than they have to be.
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I don't know what "implicit multiplication" is by that name, but
certainly writing SPRING_CONSTANT everywhere in an expression is _NOT_
an answer to any problem with "scientific mathematics" (again, whatever
your definition of that phrase is). Concise notation is critical in
boiling down an otherwise excessively "busy" expression.

That things are complicated in some places is mostly a reflection of
reality.

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