Non-mathematicians: You can’t just make up numbers!
Mathematical fictionalists:
[Image description: Thor saying ‘All numbers are made up’
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Stolen from twitter.
Remember that the ÷ symbol is usually not used in equations, and never used in an equation that used brackets to imply multiplication without a X sign, because it would create ambiguity. You can't give a correct answer to an incorrect equation.
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'for technical reasons' in a maths proof has the same vibe as 'for personal reasons' in a tumblr post.
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Since people are arguing about whether 0 is a natural number again, instead of joining in I'm taking 0 out of the integers until you learn to get along. You don't get nice ring structure until you behave
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Forgive me father for I have x-x³/3!+x⁵/5!-x⁷/7!+...
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