The initial illustration (pain) is simply to show that playing word games by re-defining the context does NOT show a multiplicity of valid answers or ways of understanding. But ppl pretend like it does, so that they can claim that one set of answers is ‘western’ or ‘colonial’.
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Whether or not you ever have cause to use binary or hexadecimal in your own life (in which case thoughtlessly assuming "10" means "ten" could be disastrous) it's the capacity to think outside of boxes in general that makes for a generally "smart person"
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I also frankly love revealing to them (something I didn't grok until grad school) that: The entire point of using symbols in physics is to make your life easier/becasue physicists are lazy as fuck and we don't want to write out "time", we just want to write "t".
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If the symbols start confusing you because they're too simillar, *change them for your work*. As long as you define what represents what, that's what matters! I had a grad q-mech exam where a 3 page long problem had k's and kappa's and my hand writing SUCKS. So I eventually went-
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