I agree. Very unfortunate especially since we math oriented folks
readily use these one letter variables. We have centuries of tradition
behind x and y and z for example.
David Vincent-Jones wrote:
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The names x., y. et all were special and looked special; fine but
eliminating any part of the a through Z series as regular nouns I believe to
be unfortunate.
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