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> In math people like well-formed questions, and generally don't like ill-formed questions. This is not so simple, though. Ill formed questions can be interest
by freehorse 4y ago
> In math people like well-formed questions, and generally don't like ill-formed questions.
This is not so simple, though. Ill formed questions can be interesting as a motivation to formalise them (ie make them well-formed) in generalising/abstracting concepts into new concepts. Eg how even/odd has been generalised to transfinite numbers.