Re: [math-fun] Which letters are used as variables in which languages?

* Marc LeBrun <mlb@well.com> [Oct 06. 2009 19:19]:

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Moreover, there's some element of the engineering world that eschews i in favor of j.

... b/c engineering sums are always using index i and double sums are out of bound 8-)) FORTRAN! P.S.: ä, ö, ü, and ß are sadly neglected as indices for summation.