This reminded me of an item from Littlewood's Miscellany: The spoken word has dangers. A famous lecture was unintelligible to most of its audience because ' Harnoo ', clearly an important character in the drama, failed to be identified in time as hv. On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Marc LeBrun <mlb@well.com> wrote:
="Fred lunnon" <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> A university lecturer of yore, while teaching a course in complex analyis, was alleged to have become so tired of writing 1/(2 pi) in front of integrals, that he took to announcing at the start of the course that 2 pi = 1.
Or ape the notation for Planck's constant and "bar" the integral sign a tad?
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