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math-out n.

[poss. from ‘white-out’ (the blizzard variety)] A paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal notation as to be incomprehensible. This may be a device for concealing the fact that it is actually content-free. See also numbers, social science number.

A math-out approach to history.

(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is 73-05-19. The previous one is the frontispiece.)

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The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions.