Roll Over, Foucault

And you thought all the trouble was in the Humanities Departments:

We do not need to write jV (GH)j and jE(GH)j separately, since jV
(GH)j = jV (G)j and jV (GH)j = jE(GH)j + 1 by construction.

--Bommarito and Katz, A Mathematical Approach to the Study of the United States Code, link.

H/T Ignoto.