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It wasn't the best example, but let's take the area of a circle, which is r^2*PI. I don't even know the proof for that by heart, but I can still make use of the
by Tichy 13y ago
It wasn't the best example, but let's take the area of a circle, which is r^2*PI. I don't even know the proof for that by heart, but I can still make use of the information.
A proof simply tells me that something is true. Further understanding is just a bonus.
- phaemon 13y agoThe understanding here is that πr^2 is the area of a circle. You are saying that this understanding is important/useful even without the proof. This is in direct contradiction to what you said earlier, where you said the proof was important/useful even without the understanding. Perhaps we're using the word "understanding" to mean two different things here and that's where the contradiction lies.