Re:How the modern world arose from imaginary numbers
by ajuc on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:22AM
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> If I have two acorns I know I can potentially grow two very real trees.
There are 2-seeded acorns. And you can get more than 1 tree from 1 seed in some species by asexual reproduction. I guess it depends on how you count trees. All the possibilities I see (number of trunks, distinctive DNA, unconnected cliques of cells) are fuzzy and have unintuitive counterexamples.
There are 2-seeded acorns. And you can get more than 1 tree from 1 seed in some species by asexual reproduction. I guess it depends on how you count trees. All the possibilities I see (number of trunks, distinctive DNA, unconnected cliques of cells) are fuzzy and have unintuitive counterexamples.