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[โ€“] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think they got the joke, they were just joking about how this is common in math :P

[โ€“] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

The most atrocious variable names I ever encountered in code were as a research assistant for a math professor doing game theory simulations. Literally unreadable unless you had a copy of his paper on the subject to refer to