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 slt HeaterOn CurrentTemperature MinimumTemperature
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-They could do the exact same thing, but the bottom one actually explains what's going on. And it's still shorter that 57 characters.
+They could do the exact same thing, but the bottom one actually explains what's going on. And it's still shorter than 57 characters.
 
 If you're juggling 10+ registers in your code without naming them, the chances of getting them mixed up increases greatly. And if you do make a mistake somewhere, trying to follow the code can be more complicated than if you used named variables.