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science4sail ◴[] No.42140143[source]
I must confess that I have an irrational fondness for the use of weird symbols in math and technical documents, whether it's for a homework assignment in school or a white-paper for work.

My unit tests are literally full of hieroglyphics. My favorite design doc to this day is one where I sprinkled Sumerian cuneiform throughout the text, e.g. 𒀭𒄑𒉋𒂵𒎌 and 𒂗𒆠𒄭 (Gilgamesh and Enkidu) instead of Alice and Bob.

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1. BalinKing ◴[] No.42147941[source]
Reminds me of Lamport's original paper on Paxos, in which he eschewed Alice, Bob, et al. in favor of ∆˘ικστρα, Γωυδα, Πνυeλ˘ι, and a whole host more.