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The result was '''delete'''. '''[[User:MBisanz|<span style='color: #FFFF00;background-color: #0000FF;'>MBisanz</span>]]''' ^{[[User talk:MBisanz|<span style='color: #FFA500;'>talk</span>]]} 01:26, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

===[[FOST function]]===

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*'''Delete''' - I agree with the nominator that it is probably made up (but I have seen that before where it turned out to be wrong) but for sure it lacks the sources required to meet the notability guideline. [[User:DeVerm|DeVerm]] ([[User talk:DeVerm|talk]]) 19:23, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

*'''Delete''': This function was certainly not made up by the creator of the mrob.com page, which is trying to describe the construction of [[Rayo's number]] to readers with relatively little mathematical background. And the FOST(x) function given there precisely corresponds to the definition of [[Rayo's number]] when the value of x is a googol. I would in fact be suggesting a redirect if I thought that FOST was a standard name for this function - however, there is absolutely no evidence of this and, in fact, I suspect that the source of the mrob.com page, lacking an established name for the function, was simply using an acronym for [[first-order]] [[set theory]] as a temporarily convenient way of referring to it. [[User:PWilkinson|PWilkinson]] ([[User talk:PWilkinson|talk]]) 12:45, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

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