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1+1=3 (for very large values of 1)
by dvh 2y ago
1+1=3 (for very large values of 1)
- dist-epoch 2y agoFor extreme values 1+1 can be as high as 5.
- marcosdumay 2y agoIt's between 0 and 10, and can be approximated by either depending on the context...
- croes 2y agoAnd 1x1=2 according to Terrence Howard
- omeysalvi 2y agoActually, it is a metaphor for formulating a brand new branch of mathematics that fixes the identity principle and all the problems with the square root of two. But also, it is not a metaphor because show me any physical system where an action times an action does not equal a reaction.
- feoren 2y agoIt's actually super easy to form a "brand new branch of mathematics". Just start with some definitions and run with them. Although you'll almost certainly end up with something inconsistent. And if you don't, it'll almost certainly be not useful. And if it is useful, it'll almost certainly turn out to be the exact same math just wearing a costume. There are no problems with the square root of two. > show me any physical system where an action times an action does not equal a reaction. Show me any gazzbok where a thrushbloom minus a grimblegork does not equal a fistelblush. Haha, you can't do it, can you!? I WIN! That is to say: you're using silly made up definitions of "action" and "times" here.
- holden_nelson 2y ago> That is to say: you're using silly made up definitions of "action" and "times" here. I believe they’re quoting Howard’s Rogan interview, fwiw
- ndsipa_pomu 2y ago> show me any physical system where an action times an action does not equal a reaction Not quite sure what an action times an action is, but how about rotating a 2d shape 180 degrees? Do that twice and it's the same as not rotating it at all.
- croes 2y agoYou mean two reactions. Otherwise 1x1 would be 1
- Suppafly 2y agoAre you saying you actually buy into the Terrence Howard school of mathematics? For serious?
- bluGill 2y agoI know of 7 different ways to do 1+1 getting 5 different answers. I use most of them in my day to day work as a programmer. Most of the time 1+1=10 because as a programmer I work in binary.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago> Most of the time 1+1=10 because as a programmer I work in binary. Really low level embedded work? Most programming I know about effectively works in base 10 or sometimes hex.
- bluGill 2y agoEmbedded work - not very low level, but I need to decode a lot of CAN network packets where the individual bits matter. Most of them time I use a hex representation, but that is because hex makes it really easy to figure out the binary going on underneath. Even when I'm doing normal math though it is important to remember that it is binary under it all and so overflow happens at numbers that make sense in binary terms.
- tightbookkeeper 2y agoLiterally confusing syntax for semantics.
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- nwnwhwje 2y ago1+1=10 if math were invented before fingers. Also: ١ + ٥ = ٦
- earthboundkid 2y ago一 + 一 = ニ.
- somat 2y agoI would say 1 + 1 = 4 for very large values of one. You only need mid values of 1 for 1 + 1 to equal 3