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Re:Pi in Other Universes: How the value of pi depends on the... by thriftwy on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:53AM (#38066424)
Axioms are not wrong if you can derive some math from them.

They may noy correspond to anything in our world, and then we usually discover something that does.

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Re:Pi in Other Universes: How the value of pi depends on the... by tsimionescu on Monday October 30, 2023 @04:05AM (#38066776)
The point wasn't that they're wrong, but instead that they are arbitrary. You could create a mathematical system with entirely different axioms than what we explore typically, and it would only be different in how usefully it maps onto real world concepts.
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