I can't stand this faggotry

Okay, American quantifiers, right angle markers, etc. are okay and  sometimes even logical, but why the hell do you use that gay derivative notation? isn't sin'x simpler than d/dx sinx? If you aren't a fucking cretin, who I assume most of people here aren't, the first notation is as easy to manipulate and work with as the second one, and certainly less bitchy to write and type.

Faggots.

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we use f'(x) when we've already defined a function f(x), and d/dx whatever when we haven't.  i'm sure if you wrote sin'(x) and showed it to someone theyd be able to deal with it, but, particularly in the case of trig functions with their already stupid notation, i can't agree that it would be any kind of sensical to notate it that way.  i already disagree with the sin^2 x thing.  its a function.  there should be parentheses.  the exponent should come at the end.  sin(x)^2.  it might be simpler to do it the other way but its a retarded exception to how things are generally notated.  plus d/dx style notation is a fuckload more useful if you've got other variables floating around.  for instance, d/dx sin(y) definitely requires noting which variable the derivative is in terms of.