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> I've always thought math would be much easier to learn if they used descriptive variable names.

I think the variable names are already picked to be descriptive. No one is picking them to be more obscure or harder to track. The problem is that those who are starting out still haven't picked up concepts or learned the standard notations for each problem domain, thus we are left with the pain of ramping up on a topic.



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