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From: Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com>
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On 2012/06/07 20:15, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson wrote:
> Mathematicians have an implied operator between symbols.  You can't do
> that with multi character names.  Not in a way that can make sense, to
> me.

In mathematics, the spacing is different - check out TeX. For example,
the name "sin" is typeset somewhat tighter than implicit multiplication
of the three variables "s", "i" and "n". Unicode has various spaces that
might be used.

Hans