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> Sorry, I but cannot assume you know nothing at all!

Make the witty text a hyperlink to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra ?



<irony>Great Suggestion! Let no humor remain in scientific explanations!<\irony> Seriously.. don't you get the joke?


> Seriously.. don't you get the joke?

Unfortunately it was lost on me then. It was a blue question [?] next to a assumption the author has of the reader.

I hoped the [?] marked gave some insight or info into the assumption,

But rather you got a witty response, hence my suggestion, to keep the witty response but also help people not in the know.


So I guess an explanation has to be very careful with that then. I liked the style. Good way to make clear that this isn't some uptight explanation, but the attempt to experience a little with the explanation style. But it comes with the risk to just confuse people.


> I liked the style

Same here, still consuming it, gonna take a couple of days.

But then I'm sharing it with bossman and my mother.




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