I've seen this happen in papers that "just" presented something as simple as an image thresholding function where the exact code took less than a dozen lines of C once I'd reverse engineered from test data what the constant their method relied on that they'd unhelpfully left out.
The implementation in fact took less space than their plain English description...
For papers that are deeply abstract and focused on solving a problem of the nature you describe, that's to me very different, and clearly there are papers where you won't get around using maths to communicate the problem well. But at least in the fields I've worked in, those kind of papers are rare exceptions.
The implementation in fact took less space than their plain English description...
For papers that are deeply abstract and focused on solving a problem of the nature you describe, that's to me very different, and clearly there are papers where you won't get around using maths to communicate the problem well. But at least in the fields I've worked in, those kind of papers are rare exceptions.