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Doesn't the weirdness come from the fact that this structure is commutative, but not associative? I know of only one other structure of this type, namely floati
by H8crilA 3y ago
Doesn't the weirdness come from the fact that this structure is commutative, but not associative? I know of only one other structure of this type, namely floating point numbers. For those that don't remember definitions: (a+b) = (b+a), but ((a+b)+c) sometimes does not equal (a+(b+c)), even more so in Infinite Craft than in float addition. Such structures are unusual in mathematics.
- shmageggy 3y agoCombined with the hyper-edges, I agree that's what's unusual here. Some Googling for "commutative but not associative" gave (besides some abstract math examples) the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors and the average function as two intuitive examples.
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- opnitro 3y agoNit picking, but floating point is commutative either. 1 + NaN == NaN Nan + 1 == NaN Nan != Nan (NaN is defined as not being equal to itself)