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But it is still worth sending this in as a suggestion. Often the hardest part of writing material which is meant to be read by people of different backgrounds is figuring out when language will be potentially unclear to your target audience. While anyone with a math background would pick up what "all" was supposed to mean from the word "intersection", the description of intersection itself is ambiguous and shouldn't be.

However the usual way of talking in math would suggest one of the following two:

I believe that these should be clear to people without familiarity with the math, and also be clearer to people for whom English is a second language.
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(tye)Re: Code mistake in Camel book?
by tye (Sage) on Jun 26, 2001 at 19:56 UTC

    For me, the key word that is missing is "each". Each of the keys returned is present in all of the hashes.

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