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Re:The shortest paper ever published in a serious math journ... by gohrt on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @03:40PM (#10623511)
Why would you count a compound expression, with internal spaces, as one word?
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Re:The shortest paper ever published in a serious math journ... by pd1 on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @03:47PM (#10623564)
Technically "n^2+1" has no spaces.

And I guess one way to think about it is that terms in an expression can be viewed as letters, so the expression then becomes a word.

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Re:The shortest paper ever published in a serious math journ... by harryjo on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @01:53AM (#10625769)
How do you pronounce that word?
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Re:The shortest paper ever published in a serious math journ... by pd1 on Thursday December 03, 2015 @03:01PM (#10672154)
"n squared plus one"
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Re:The shortest paper ever published in a serious math journ... by danharaj on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @03:47PM (#10623561)
The spaces are mere typesetting. n^2+2 is the same expression typeset a different way.
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Re:The shortest paper ever published in a serious math journ... by harryjo on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @01:53AM (#10625765)
"mere typesetting" is a rather offensive way to describe a document typeset in TeX, a system invented to free mathematics from "mere typesetting".
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Re:The shortest paper ever published in a serious math journ... by danharaj on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @05:12PM (#10630098)
Hey, I've used LaTex. It deserves aspersions as much as accolades :3
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