So mathematicians have spent a very long time inventing very creative means by which to conflate number (positional name produced by the operation of positional naming) with the categories of results of the operations of addition and subtraction: …
Source date (UTC): 2018-03-14 17:31:55 UTC
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@ProfessorLarp @GolfNorman … the position of which cannot be named by positional naming. This means that while some operations (changes by addition or subtraction) have no positional name, and as such can only be represented by a function. Ergo, there exists no square root of two, only the function.
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@ProfessorLarp @GolfNorman … the position of which cannot be named by positional naming. This means that while some operations (changes by addition or subtraction) have no positional name, and as such can only be represented by a function. Ergo, there exists no square root of two, only the function.
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/973974064791478274
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