Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I'd say that there is only a fairly weak correlation (positive or 
> negative) between compactness and readability.

>    x = 2*y*y*y - 3*a*b

  The context was really a multilined program source code, not a
mathematical formula, which your line really is.

  Mathematical formulae can often be written compactly because they
a) aren't really program code, and b) there's an established syntax
to write it compactly.

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