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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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