• neptune@dmv.social
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    1 year ago

    I think you are really touching on math philosophy here. Is math discovered or invented?

    Just because you can WRITE x/0 doesn’t mean you should be able to perform the operation. Because it’s conversion to language is non sensical (to you, at this moment) does heavily imply The operation is meaning or arcane.

    You asked for a simple explanation of the math, so people analogized it into common language. That doesn’t necessarily mean the common language provided is a perfect mapping. The best answer for a math question will always be a math answer.

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      1 year ago

      I think I’m all set, math pun intended and also I really appreciate your critique here 📐

      Edit: i like that you brought up mapping since maps are in a similar sense only ever capable of representing something where distortion is inevitable even though irs fundamentally workable for the intended purpose