Weird thing is it really doesn ' t look like Germany have things any more under control than we doThere are an estimated 117 , 234 refugees living in the UK . That ' s just 0 . 18 per cent of the total population 64 . 1 million people . w e d o R e f u g e e s u p p o r t RefugeefactsandfiguresThe total number of applications where asylum in Germany was granted in 2016 was 214 , 280 s t a t i s t i k a n lageasylgeschaeftsbericht . pdf ? blobpublicationFileThis number doesn ' t even include people that came to Germany before 2016 . So if you compare those numbers Germany seems to do an amazing job and they certainly have things much more under control than the UK . <| sep |> I ' m sure mathematical notation can be short and sweet to practitioners incontext , but I often find myself wishing for some pseudocode , or at least formulations where the names are moreverbose than a dozen singleletter units .