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FTA: "By comparison, consider literacy. The ability to receive thoughts from a person who is not at the same place or time is a similarly great power. The drama
by noonespecial 15y ago
FTA: "By comparison, consider literacy. The ability to receive thoughts from a person who is not at the same place or time is a similarly great power. The dramatic social consequences of the rise of literacy are well known."
I'm thinking it might be a bit on the difficult side to express the relationships written equations make easy if all you've got is an animated graph full of dials or a "scrubbing calculator".
Written math is wonderfully dense and meaningful and allows the transmission of a very particular kind of knowledge with the simplest of mediums.
- firefoxman1 15y agoThat's a good point. Sort of like when I first discovered regular expressions, I thought "Wow, I can express a whole sentence worth of very specific commands in a few characters." The same goes for Math. I don't really like Math, but I certainly won't deny its power and ability to be expressed in such a compact form.