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non- ◴[] No.42139412[source]
One thing I've always struggled with Math is keeping track of symbols I don't know the name of yet.

Googling for "Math squiggle that looks like a cursive P" is not a very elegant or convenient way of learning new symbol names.

I wish every proof or equation came with a little table that gave the English pronunciation and some context for each symbol used.

It would make it a lot easier to look up tutorials & ask questions.

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1. nox101 ◴[] No.42149956[source]
I was going to say "Use Google Lens" but then I tried it on the character above and it utterly failed :D

In any case, there are lots of camera based apps for either OCR (So you could maybe search for the character) or image search or LLM search (I didn't try ChatGPT).

I did try zooming 300% and grabbing that character as well as the whole title as an image at 100% zoom with Google Lens. It still failed in both cases.