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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just Wondering (math notation in C)
Message-ID: <29544@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 89 23:31:05 GMT
References: <29478@apple.Apple.COM> <12641@lanl.gov>
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In article <12641@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>From article <29478@apple.Apple.COM>, by desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers):
>>   set V of vertex ...
>In that case, it _should_ have been:
>    set vertex_set of vertex ...
>
>Assuming that the two statements above may be separated in the program
>by many lines (even pages) of other code, the "vertex_set" variable is
>_MUCH_ easier to read, maintain, and even to _WRITE_!

I don't agree. If the form in which everyone learned the equation uses
X, x, and z, then use those very same symbols. Which would you rather
read: 

    Area := ratio_of_diameter_to_circumference * radius_of_circle ^^2
or
         ___  2
    A =  | | R	  

				Peter Desnoyers