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seeing more math on the TL recently. i haven't mathposted in a long time but i'm still happy to field math questions from twitter peeps, just reply here or tag me or w/e. big meaty philosophical questions like "wtf are real numbers anyway" would be particularly fun for me rn
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Is math just a catalogue of increasingly exotic combinations of unambiguous patterns? And applied math is just taking some real world measurements and checking the catalogue for patterns that can cover them meaningfully?
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