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The math example is more informative when it's not something trivial. For example, take the following notion about a sequence of X:

∀ e, ∀ d, ∃ N : ∀ n > N, P(|Xn - Y| > e) < d.

A more human way to say this is that eventually, we will become arbitrarily confident that X is arbitrarily close to Y. This is the notion of convergence in probability, and the formalism of that concept is way easier to process with a little human explanation. Density of notation helps sometimes, but not always. When the math isn't trivial, it's the case here too.





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