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explaining why "kinds of atom" isn't a typo.
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@ -1162,6 +1162,10 @@ computer. Often, people use the term @dfn{expression}
indiscriminately. (Also, in many texts, the word @dfn{form} is used
as a synonym for expression.)
@c This and the next paragraph say ``kinds of atom'', but that is not
@c a typo, just slightly ``old-fashioned wording which adds a fillip
@c of interest to it'', and ``is more elegant writing'', according to
@c RMS.
Incidentally, the atoms that make up our universe were named such when
they were thought to be indivisible; but it has been found that physical
atoms are not indivisible. Parts can split off an atom or it can