Re: Not complicated, weird situation

From: Arturo Magidin (magidin_at_math.berkeley.edu)
Date: 04/06/05 

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 19:49:36 +0000 (UTC)

In article <FoW4e.19423$zl.5180@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
W. Dale Hall <mailtodhall@farir.com> wrote:

   [.snip.]

>We all know this. We also know that the paper could not possibly
>have been reviewed by someone who had the least understanding of
>algebra.

Or for that matter, English. There is simply no way anyone who has
even passing familiarity with mathematical writing would allow a
manuscript in which the roman and italic "a", "f", "x", and "g" are
used interchangeably. If nothing else, a long list of typographical
and grammatical corrections should have been forthcoming. 

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