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> For a start, I don't know how to type these on a keyboard.

You can learn how to do that, even find a way to type "sigma", but more importantly, it best benefits readers, not writers, so you don't need to learn to type it

> and "rho" or "sigma" are pretty clear.

no it's not, where would you get clarity from is all the clarifying literature for these notions use the actual math notation σ?

> "n" and a constant "η". Just begging for confusion

looks very distinct, one is obviously mathy, another isn't




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