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is a notation, then 'I ate the crab apple.' is a term in that notation. A notation is a way of writing things down, not something you've written in it. Zenzizenzizenzic is a term not a notation.-
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It's really only a couple of paragraphs, and I think we could cut it down to a paragraph and an image.-
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