The question of whether a baby who could in theory stay on a lap the whole time counts as a seat, or whether a fat person counts as two seats (and how fat they have to be before this is enforced) are all big real life questions airlines have to deal with
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You'd think so, but mathematics handled that by just ignoring it.
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The point is never that the abstracted mathematical terms are useless either. The point is that they're sophisticated tools that require some understanding, and we should educate people to understand that rather than pretend otherwise.
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The counterpoint is that math is all but useless, and students just need to know what the buttons on their phone calculators mean. We can argue the points there if we want to, but we might as well make the terms clear.
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