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On 17/11/2010 10:46, in article 1t7pvrh3i022d.8t9yqjonagar$.dlg@40tude.net,
"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:31:50 -0800 (PST), AdaMagica wrote:
> 
>> On 17 Nov., 01:03, Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauh...@maps.futureapps.de>
>> wrote:
>>> � (for all  X in domain | P (X))
>>> � (for some X in domain | P (X))
... 
> "for some" looks awful, why not "exists" or U+2203, since we are Unicode
> now? (:-))

Why? It reads as perfectly idiomatic English and is standard mathematical
phrasing.

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