So you read my comment and thought: "That guy who can read the greek alphabet doesn't know there are historical roots for greek letters in mathematical notation".
Sure, back then when everybody who learned trigonometry had a classical education with ancient greek picking greek letters when the latin alphabet wouldn't do was a rational decision. It just hasn't aged well.
I'm just saying that changing the symbols will make things worse, not better.
Virtually all the textbooks use those symbols. Do you have a viable and better alternative to suggest or are you just complaining? And I didn't assume that you know or don't know something, I just wrote it down for the sake of the argument. We are not having a private conversation, we are contributing to a public discussion.
That'd not what they said: they made a claim that a single alphabet is insufficient, and thus Greek makes as good a choice as it was used historically too (and allows easy differentiation).
Math also uses made up symbols specific to math a lot (integral, summations, arrows, operators...).
If you want to claim that Greek is the problem, how would you solve the problem of insufficient symbols?
Sure, back then when everybody who learned trigonometry had a classical education with ancient greek picking greek letters when the latin alphabet wouldn't do was a rational decision. It just hasn't aged well.