I'm sitting in a meeting right now watching three high-level engineers at my company ask another engineer to spell out the meaning of equations in his design doc because "the ideas are simple but the formulas make them illegible" and I've never felt more vindicated about my feelings on math symbology in my entire life.
Update: Our engineer is back having taken the feedback from the previous meeting and... prepended to his document a huge table defining all the symbols in the document.
The table is two pages long. 😭
