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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>math-out</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="massage.html" title="massage"/><link rel="next" href="Matrix.html" title="Matrix"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">math-out</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="massage.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Matrix.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="math-out"/><dt xmlns="" id="math-out"><b>math-out</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [poss. from ‘white-out’ (the blizzard variety)] A paper
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or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as
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to be incomprehensible. This may be a device for concealing the fact that
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it is actually <a href="../C/content-free.html"><i class="glossterm">content-free</i></a>. See also
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<a href="../N/numbers.html"><i class="glossterm">numbers</i></a>, <a href="../S/social-science-number.html"><i class="glossterm">social science
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<a href="../S/space-cadet-keyboard.html#crunchly73-05-19">73-05-19</a>. The previous one is
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