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		sabas123 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language p... As somebody that occasionally studies pure math books those can be very, very light on regular English.

Jensson 10 months ago [–]

That makes them much easier to read though, its so hard to find a specific statement in English compared to math notation since its easier to find a specific symbol than a specific word.

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