Do you remember those video games where you go off one end and you come back around on the other side. That's a world where it can be true that 2+2 = 5.
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There's a joke that number theorists used to pride themselves on having the one field of math that had the least practical application of any of them Then digital encryption happened and prime factorization suddenly became VERY important to government and business
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Number theorists are very angry about this fact and are all busily working on finding an efficient prime factorization algorithm so the field of encryption can be destroyed and they can go back to their happy uselessness Like the movie Sneakers
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Is number theory limited to integers? I was thinking of that as discrete mathematics, or at least, that integers are only a subset of number theory.
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nvm, you're right. It gets spun off into things like real analysis and complex analysis when you're not staying with integers.
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