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[โ€“] GTG3000@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Math notation is just terrible in general because a lot of it is shorthand made up by someone who likes single-letter variables. A symbol you can't type, something above, something below.

A for loop is clear and descriptive.
Or if you're feeling fancy, you could go functional with reduce(add, range(0, 5), 0).

[โ€“] Inky@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Mathematical notation was designed to be written by hand. It is at least as clear and descriptive as any syntax from a programming language. You're pretending that the abstraction behind a for loop is somehow less than that behind a sum or product notation.