• GTG3000
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    21 year ago

    Math notation is just terrible in general because a lot of it is shorthand made up by someone who likes single-letter variables. A symbol you can’t type, something above, something below.

    A for loop is clear and descriptive.
    Or if you’re feeling fancy, you could go functional with reduce(add, range(0, 5), 0).

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Mathematical notation was designed to be written by hand. It is at least as clear and descriptive as any syntax from a programming language. You’re pretending that the abstraction behind a for loop is somehow less than that behind a sum or product notation.