It's been a while since my last post and now it's time for a mathematical post:
I'm currently preparing for a math exam (calculus) and I'm thinking it would be nice if there was a way to avoid much of the "for every
there is an
, so that for all
some property ... holds" stuff you find in textbooks. Some textbooks actually shorten it to "for every
some property ... holds for almost all
".
However, I haven't found a quantifier to express this anywhere yet, so I'm proposing to introduce a new one:
should mean "for almost all
holds", which suggests that there are only finitely many elements for which it does not hold.
One can formalize this as:
Of course, a new existential quantifier is required then, too (for negation):
stands for "there exist infinitely many
, for which
holds".
And this can be formalized as:

It's easy to see that 
Thus one can use the two quantifiers just as one would use
and
usually. Note however than
and
don't interchange and neither do
and
.
One last note: it might be worth using a different notation, for example:
might be easier to understand than
, and
might be better than
.
I'll try to formalize these quantifiers some more when I find some spare time.
Stay tuned for coding related updates soon ![]()
Cheers,
Andreas