The Great Mathematical Gang War

The Great Mathematical Gang War
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The eternal gang war of mathematical notation! On the red side, we've got the cautious mathematicians who write "x < y" and then separately define their variables like responsible adults. On the blue side, the mathematical daredevils who chain everything together in one gloriously efficient expression: "a = x < y = b".

This is the kind of thing that splits research groups and ruins faculty meetings. The red side screams about clarity and avoiding ambiguity, while the blue side smugly points out they saved 7 precious characters. Meanwhile, the engineers in the back just wrote "x≈y" and called it a day.

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