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Correct! And it took me just one paragraph, not the 18 pages of meandering (and I think confusing) text that it takes the author of the pdf to introduce the same idea.


You didn’t introduce any idea. You said it’s “just a number” and wrote down a formula without any explanation or justification.

I concede that it was much shorter though. Well done!


Haha you reminded me of that idea in software engineering that "it's easy to make an algorithm faster if you accept that at times it might output the wrong result; in fact you can make infinitely fast"




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