there are good reasons (sometimes) for writing functions on-the-right (for example). also for surpressing parens. long live x(f)… if that is, in fact, what its author actually *meant*.
Proposition XIV of Archimedes’s Quadratura Parabolae requires a diagram with 25 labelled points. There being only 24 Greek letters, Archimedes invents a new one, apparently a Delta with a cedilla.
On your point about Catherine, that’s becoming a common thing among open-source computer programming frameworks. Case in point: Nancy (http://nancyfx.org/), a .Net web framework based on another for a different platform called Sinatra.
Math with Bad Drawings 
To be named Pikachu is… 😶
I’d love to know what kind of proof required 40+ different variable names!
However, if your function takes in functions as arguments, then you may give them the name “f”, while the function itself might be called Φ or ψ
My father happens to share his name with a major US corporation.
x(f), lol!
there are good reasons (sometimes) for writing functions on-the-right (for example). also for surpressing parens. long live x(f)… if that is, in fact, what its author actually *meant*.
there is no “r” in “suppressing”. no, wait. there is only *one* “r” in…
what tends to be missed: once you’ve *chosen* a name. stick *with* it! that is all. love, v.
Proposition XIV of Archimedes’s Quadratura Parabolae requires a diagram with 25 labelled points. There being only 24 Greek letters, Archimedes invents a new one, apparently a Delta with a cedilla.
On your point about Catherine, that’s becoming a common thing among open-source computer programming frameworks. Case in point: Nancy (http://nancyfx.org/), a .Net web framework based on another for a different platform called Sinatra.
how bout cyrillic? or japanese kana? arabic abgad? devanagari? or the best one, chinese characters.
Too many Cyrillic letters are (or look) the same as Latin or Greek letters.