Go back a few centuries and you get long form Latin instead. Or go back much further and you will find the quadratic formula described as taking the number that the second term is increased by, diminishing it by half and then.... . Basically an essay just to say -q/2.
Sure, you could write
-CoefficientInFrontOfXToTheOne/2
But then each row of your calculation will need line breaks and will be hard to understand. It will take forever to write and it will take forever to read. No thank you.
Sure, you could write
-CoefficientInFrontOfXToTheOne/2
But then each row of your calculation will need line breaks and will be hard to understand. It will take forever to write and it will take forever to read. No thank you.