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If it has three letter variables, chances are it was also written by someone that doesn't want to code either
It's so old that it was for purposes of saving memory.
Back when optimization was Black Magic. Now we just tell the customers they need better hardware.
Someone probably had to argue hard to get 3 letter variables. Guarantee there was some one arguing for 1 letter variables.