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That is pretty amazing.

I really wish that entire science would just move on from usage of symbols to algorithms, it would considerably reduce the total information one needs to know before starting to study some fields with more esoteric symbolic notations.

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> entire science

I am not sure how you would replace the structural formulas used in organic chemistry, for example. Going beyond science, most engineering disciplines use schematic notation that you would find esoteric, yet with no chance to be translated into algorithms in any meaningful way.

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