Hrmm today I will search for r/sino in the google search engine (hexbear.net)

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[-] rhubarb@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago

That's not even simplifying it, it's just changing it into a rarer trigonometric function and making it less readable

[-] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 months ago

And who uses "o" as a variable? Basically guaranteed unreadability.

Whatever math detector they're using is hair-trigger and wrong.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

And who uses "o" as a variable

Scientists who aren't mathematicians, usually.

[-] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

Doctor Leo Spaceman most likely

[-] christian@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's fine if you're working with things more abstract than numbers. You see O used in computational complexity notation all the time, and O is often used for a structure sheaf which will vary based on context, like in algebraic geometry. I think in general really it's not an issue as long as you're not discussing functions where the reader might consider that zero could be a possible input, like trigonometric functions for example.