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Kappa used for limit of condition numbers
Kappa is used as the condition number in most of the article, except in the section "The Resisting Oracle", where kappa is used for a parameter which appears to not be the condition number of a matrix in this article (rather a limiting value).
This might be oddly specific and nitpicky, but as I read that section, I saw this
![screen shot 2017-04-18 at 11 19 20 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2467754/25186191/552e32c2-24d4-11e7-9d81-42a671a5ac9c.png)
which prompted me to assume $\kappa$ is the condition number of $f^n$, before noticing the kappa buried in this (which I am reading a little less closely due to it being a natural analogue of the prior example)
![screen shot 2017-04-18 at 11 19 16 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/2467754/25186207/5cd3b812-24d4-11e7-8cb1-346f979f55a0.png)
Especially since, in that last term, the important part is the $| w |^2$ while $\kappa$ is (presumably?) an arbitrary parameter.
This could easily be fixed by using a different letter to indicate novelty, or by saying "where $\kappa$ is a fixed constant not depending on $n$."
I was on the fence about this. I think this bug report is enough to push me over the edge to using kappa bar instead. Thanks!