The Official "Random Thoughts" Thread

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This thread is for sharing random thoughts that aren't important enough to warrant threads of their own. Indulge yourself.


What truly evil man is responsible for the prominence of the variable y in mathematics? The letter's "tail" gets in the way of the numbers and symbols on the line beneath it. And why dx and dy, rather than Δx and Δy?

How long until paragraph citations finally overthrow old-fashioned page numbers? Surely our digital age has made the transition inevitable.

It's a shame that well-produced books are so rare. Down with cloth; up with casewrap.

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Delta is for non-infinitesimal differences, rather than differentials.

Of course, but that doesn't answer the question. Why?