Re: What is wrong with this code?

From: Old Wolf <oldwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 14 May 2007 15:54:20 -0700

On May 14, 10:54 pm, rich...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Tobin) wrote:

I suspect a background in mathematics also inclines one to short
variable names; mathematicians almost invariably use single-letter
names.

A minor notational quirk. In mathematics, "bar" means b multiplied
by a multiplied by r ! In fact, the first algebra text used words for
variable names -- specifically, the Arabic word for "the thing".

In mathematics you rarely, if ever, come across a situation where
you would need to have multiple variables with descriptive names.
Most multi-variable situations call for the variables to be held
in arrays of some form or another.

.

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