Well, that was fun. Finished the midterm, and got my grade back for the first assignment. All is well and good in that department, I believe, and since my assignment mark was well above average I'm not feeling too worried about the midterm.
Except for delta epsilon and friends... didn't get that. Kinda freaked me out that they were on the midterm, because I knew for a fact that I had missed that lecture due to issues of sleep. Never having seen those symbols before (not even in any of my math classes ever), I kinda panicked and assumed that they were more than just symbols. So I got those two questions wrong, but I'm not too bummed about it. I think I get em now. Probably. I find it sort of confusing sometimes when there an existential statement, followed by a universal, followed by an existential. Not sure how to read em out in proper English.
Course is still good though. And so are tutorials, cause they're helpful. Big challenge now though is leaving myself enough white space to write the body of a proof in between the start and end of it. I like saving paper, but then it gets all squished :(
Peace and love
Epsilon and delta are just symbols. We borrow from the Greek alphabet because sometimes letters from our own alphabet get too much use.
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