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>I'm keen on a distinction between numbers and forumals. What’s the operational advantage of this approach? I feel like it would wreck havoc with fundamental t
by cannabis_sam 8y ago
>I'm keen on a distinction between numbers and forumals.
What’s the operational advantage of this approach? I feel like it would wreck havoc with fundamental tools like mathematical induction..
- posterboy 8y agoThe difference between f(x)=...=0 and x=2, e.g. is quite huge for a lot of college students. The distinction between constants, operators and formulas is quite explicit in algebra. It seems to be a natural distinction to make. One advantage, I guess, is that a formula can be wrong, but a number can't, which is why proof by induction works at all.
- joel_ms 8y agoHow would a proof by induction work with only two natural numbers?