- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:46:18 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-math@w3.org
> Bogus argument. The whole point of any notation is as a shorthand for
> something else. Plenty of other notations need translation to become
> first order e.g.
>
> lim_{x->0} (sin x / x) = 1
>
> "really means"
>
> Exists(L) all(epsilon>0) exists(delta>0) all(x:|x|<=delta)
> |(sin x / x) - L| <= epsilon,
> and furthermore L=1.
I concede your point.
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Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
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