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To scientific-oriented minds it only refers to the mathematical operator.

I personally did not know about, and don't care about, the "horrifying" thing you see in nabla. And I will keep being like that.

If we were to start tracking all the things that are "a typo away from a bad thing", not a lot of words would be left.

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I'm sure you have a list of things that you would not want to be "one typo away" from.

There are too many things to really worry about it too much. It's not really how language works anyway - like would you say "You don't want to call your organisation the Rare Books Association because 'rare' is only one letter away from 'rape'?" - clearly that's ridiculous.

"Rare Books A**ociation" already has 1 bad word right in it. No typo needed.

I don't. One typo away means it stays different.

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