Talk:MMH-Badger MAC

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I found this line in the article:

MMH* = {

g_{x}

:

F_{p}^{k}

→

F_{p}

|

x

ϵ

F_{p}^{k}

}

I changed it to this:

\mathrm {MMH} ^{*}=\{g_{x}:F_{p}^{k}\rightarrow F_{p}|x\in F_{p}^{k}\}\,

The former format is bizarre and obnoxious, switching back and forth every few characters between TeX and non-TeX notation. The latter is standard use of TeX—not only within Wikipedia, but in the larger world.

Why would someone write something so obnoxious?

Michael Hardy (talk) 21:24, 9 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]