Dear Warren, you wrote: > Aha, that explains it. The phrasing of the definition was > very poor since it can be parsed in several ways. > You have to try to define things in ways that can only be parsed in one > way. It helps to use short sentences. With long sentences you > start wondering which word pairs up with which antecedent. I must certainly apologize for my poor command of the English language. After all, it's a foreign language for me. I try to do my best, but it is not always as clear as formal mathematical definitions. Hopefully, most people know what I mean, otherwise please tell me.
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