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Once you get the hang of it, AN reads beautifully. The concept of Life Tables and the ways the math can be abstracted away using these mystical symbols is incredibly elegant.

Side comment, when you get into the weeds with actuarial exams you quickly learn to respect older actuaries who had to solve these complex problems using clever heuristics instead of computing power. Once those heuristics are internalized they are able to give incredibly accurate off-the-cuff answers using their intuition. I remember my boss and I spending a week valuing a new product and presenting it to the wise old chief actuary who immediately felt something was off in the numbers and could point out where we likely made an error. It took me all afternoon to find the error, but of course he was right.