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Big O Notation
Kevin Clancy8y*10

I think this is an informal presentation of a subject which should only be presented formally. There's already a page called Asymptotic Notation for this topic.

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Transitive Relation
Kevin Clancy9y*10

Yes, that's correct. I wonder if it is even a good idea to talk about transitive sets in the transitive relation page, as most people who are interested in transitive relations are not likely to care about transitive sets. When this page is expanded beyond stub status, I hope that it will focus mostly on transitivity, rather than related concepts such transitive sets, posets, and preorders.

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Axiom Of Choice
Kevin Clancy9y*20

There is a page for linearly ordered set. It is called "totally ordered set". This is one of those situations where it would be nice for arbital to have a synonym system.

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Vector Arithmetic
Kevin Clancy9y*10

I see that there is a description of double scaling above. I assume that this is what "the product rule" refers to, but it is never explicitly labeled as such. Maybe giving the paragraph above Reverse a bold heading titled "The Product Rule" would help with this.

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Lambda Calculus
Kevin Clancy9y*10

I think it's confusing to introduce multi-argument functions before talking about currying. This makes it seem as though multi-argument functions are an intrinsic part of the lambda calculus, rather than just functions that return other functions.

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Greatest Lower Bound In A Poset
Kevin Clancy9y*10

There is already a page about this topic, Join and meet.

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Elementary Algebra
Kevin Clancy9y*10

I suspect that this is going to be too fast-paced for beginners. They are going to need multiple examples and exercises for each of the concepts introduced.

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Elementary Algebra
Kevin Clancy9y*10

This is sentence is kind of confusing. It seems like it's trying to say that if we know A = B, then we can substitute A for B (or vice versa) and get.... A = B?

It seems like it should say that if A = B, and A occurs in some equation, then we can substitute B in for A in that equation, and the resulting equation will hold.

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Division Of Rational Numbers Math 0
Kevin Clancy9y*20

This relies on a principle "other way" introduces but, in my opinion, is not explicit enough about: nm=n×1m. Could this be made more explicit at the end of the "other way" section? e.g. "What we've really shown here is that nm=n×1m".

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Real Number
Kevin Clancy9y*10

I think that every metric space is dense in itself. If X is a metric space, then a set E is dense in X whenever every element of X is either a limit point of E or an element of E (or both).

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