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  • marcos@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzI dunno
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    2 days ago

    Social conventions are real, well defined things. Some mathematicians like to pretend they aren’t, while using a truckload of them; that’s a hypocritical opinion.

    That’s not to say you can’t change them. But all of basic arithmetic is a social convention, you can redefine the numbers and operations any time you want too.