English binary logic operators

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Bill Baxter" <wbaxter at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ej2gij$ohu$1 at digitaldaemon.com...

> I remember when I was first learning Japanese, it occurred to me "Whoa! 
> now I'll never run out of single-character variable names when doing math 
> equations!"
>
> For some reason it didn't actually prove to be that useful, though. Even 
> the Japanese don't use Japanese symbols in their math for some reason, 
> just Roman and Greek letters like everyone else.  Every once in a while 
> I'll use an ??? to represent some big sub-expression that doesn't have 
> much meaning but keeps on re-appearing in derivations.  But that's about 
> it.

Having taken a few semesters of Japanese, I've noticed I've started to use 
some kanji in my notes as shorthand :S