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Comment by defrost

> how did authors handle symbols?

Mostly they didn't .. it was handballed to the secretaries of the math and physics typing pool who used stencils, high end typewriters, and other template mechanisms.

A good many such secretaries were reasonably talented math and physics graduates themselves who had limited opportunity to be hired to do "a man's work".

parent defrost 1 year ago

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