Hallo, Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
Why did algebra switched to a very terse notation during the 16th century, and that, for most purposes, scientists and engineers haven't looked back much ?
I mean, why did geometers start to write "a²+b²=h²" instead of writing "the square of the length of the adjacent side plus the square of the length of the opposed side equals the square of the length of the long side" like they used to do ?
I must admit, reading "trigger bang anything bang" in a patch to my eyes much looks like "the square of the length of ..." and I really have problems following such patches as quickly as I can follow the more common usual [t b a b].
Ciao