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> the author would benefit from some exposure to actual published papers

http://www.diku.dk/~grue/

Looking at his CV, he might even have had taken a few classes in Abstract Algebra.

I usually give the benefit of the doubt and assume ignorance, not incompetence. If he was familiar with Abstract Algebra, then the omission of any reference to groups and fields in the examples he gives seems bizarre, as are the pompous declarations in the "abstract" that doesn't abstract his arguments or findings.

On page 4 he does make a reference to the abelian group (Z, +). Though he just calls it "a structure" (which is not wrong), I agree that this paper is somewhat unusual. It even includes some typos ("yeild," page 4), yet it is readable and exposes an interesting topic; the ambiguity of mathematical notation.

Pooh-pooh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pooh-pooh

Also, ad hominem.

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