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> the ML-KEM draft specification (FIPS 203) uses the exact same greek symbols

I'm as proud of my heritage as the next Greek-American, but just because mathematicians use unintelligible symbols in their manuscripts doesn't mean we have do the same thing in code. Let's prioritize comprehensibility and give variables meaningful names, instead.

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FIPS 203 is not a math paper, it's a specification, giving concrete algorithms that use aforementioned variable names. Maybe they should use more descriptive variable names in the spec (you could tell them about it - they accept and respond to feedback from the public), but in the meantime, I think it's more useful for an implementation to use the same variable names as the spec.

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