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"Hey, how you doin' lil' mama? Let me whisper in ya ear"

"Use Greek letters, too! I mean... why not? Do it, man... do it... DO IT...!"

You have never seen equations before the use of letters as variables. They had sentences, full fetched sentences

Oho, but he didn't stop there, the old goat, he didn't just stop at one alphabet, did he? Because we use the Latin and Greek alphabets, and even the odd spicy Hebrew character and god knows what else in the darker corners of mathematics.

Sadly, I cannot remember which YouTube video featured this: But a guy basically speedran the description of how to solve a quadratic equation the Babylonian way, that is, drawing squares and circles and shit. It took quite a while for him just to list the steps. All that disappears once you learn the formula with the bad, scary letters.

I'd like to see anyone build a plane, computer, or any other complex object without having some way to represent variable values in math and without using any math derived using variables. It's kind of a fundamental thing to have. As a programmer I do sometimes get a bit annoyed with math people using single character variables everywhere though.

EDIT: Additionally, the use of the Greek alphabet is kinda handy. After my first years in university I started to be able to finally decode the stuff my Greek family gave me. Though initially it sucked, because I understood the math but had no idea what character the "gamma" or "lambda" were.

Alphabet doesn't make math harder, it's used for harder problems where alphabet makes them actually easier.