It is terribly verbose in Chinese too. It is verbose because it's straight-up copying the style of ancient books talking about formulas for magic, without tryi

It is terribly verbose in Chinese too. It is verbose because it's straight-up copying the style of ancient books talking about formulas for magic, without trying to optimize for ease of use. A less verbose (but still mostly gramatially correct) version might be like this: 有術曰「曼德博」。先得數曰「寬」，曰「高」。乃行是術曰。