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opportunities to affect small large numbers of sentient beings
No, it’s supposed to say that. 10^80 is earlier defined as a small large number.
Maybe “smallishly large”? That makes it clearer that you are saying “(small-kind-of-large)-kind-of number”, not “number that is small and large”
I missed that. It’s bad enough notation that I expect others to stumble over it, too.
I think it’s good bad notation.
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No, it’s supposed to say that. 10^80 is earlier defined as a small large number.
Maybe “smallishly large”? That makes it clearer that you are saying “(small-kind-of-large)-kind-of number”, not “number that is small and large”
I missed that. It’s bad enough notation that I expect others to stumble over it, too.
I think it’s good bad notation.