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Re:The Philosophy of Computer Science by l33t233372 on Monday February 20, 2023 @05:26PM (#34873779)
> The same goes for math. It is only because of our past and future operations in the real world that math has any sense.

You would be astonished(and perhaps appalled!) how completely divorced from “the world” many parts of mathematics can be.

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Re:The Philosophy of Computer Science by jaza on Monday February 20, 2023 @09:33PM (#34875764)
And that would explain the difference in the number of people who have studied basic arithmetic, versus, for example, number theory.
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