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I stopped reading earlier, when they used superscript without explaining its meaning. Its clearly meant for someone with more domain expertise than me, with my
by arijun 4mo ago
I stopped reading earlier, when they used superscript without explaining its meaning. Its clearly meant for someone with more domain expertise than me, with my hazy recollections of college math.
- Ar-Curunir 4mo agoThat is just exponentiation, eg squaring. They’re just putting symbols instead of numbers there.
- arijun 4mo agoBut then they say A + A <= A^2, wouldn’t that be false for a = 1?
- pfdietz 4mo agoIn this context, A is a set, and A + A represents the set of all sums of pairs of elements drawn from A. The paper doesn't use A^2, but rather |A|^2, which is ordinary squaring of an integer. It does use AA, which is the set of products of pairs of elements drawn from A.