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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.

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?
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"