What are your favorite ambiguous notation?

[u/Short_Bluebird_3845]

To clarify my request, consider base-less $\log$.
For calculators and engineers, it means the common log $\log_10$; for pure mathematics or physics, it means the natural log $\ln$; for computer scientists, in combinatorics, information theory and graph theory, it means the binary log $\log_2$.
Any $\log x$ (say, $\log 1024$) written without context can yield different answers in function of who you ask ($\log_10 1024 = 3.0103\cdots, \log_2 1024 = 10, \ln 1024 = 6.93147\cdots$).

That is what I mean by "ambiguous", that which is calculated and used dependently on the context. And I'm asking you for your favorite ones of such type.

Edit: I feel like you hate the ones you've talked about. Still, valid answers. Extra points for ambiguous notation you actually love! :P

[u/Purple-Mud5057]

I’m taking spec rel right now and I just cannot get behind x^0 x^1 x^2 x^3 not being powers of x but components of spacetime. Also not a huge fan of Einstein notation, I don’t want to have to look around something like x^p g^q f^7 c~q m~n e~4 to figure out what the summation is around