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Comment by jerf

No, I'm going to agree that that is 100% within the field of academic computer science. I literally covered all the relevant notation in my freshman year.

What I'm wondering is whether or not there was some other factor going on, because I'm trained as a computer scientist and found nothing particularly objectionable about the formula, other than the f[] application notation. (And as a polyglot programmer, I've long since made my peace with that sort of notation mutation.) And I am by no means well-practiced in that sort of thing; I've been out of school for 14 years now, and only dabble on the side in this sort of thing now. The "forall y there exists an x such that" pattern in the middle is an extremely common recurring pattern, and what surrounds it on either side is also extremely simple.

parent jerf 9 years ago

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