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huhtenberg on March 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequalit...

Not sure why, but this reminds me how we had a professor that would say

  Let y(x) = a*x^4 + b*x^3 + c*x^2 + d*x + e,
  whereby e is not _necessarily_ the base of 
  natural logarithm

cperciva on March 29, 2017 [–]

My favourite along those lines was "let epsilon be a small number which is not necessarily greater than zero". Everybody who spent the preceding year on epsilon-delta proofs did a double-take at that.

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