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Re:Stacking Triangles for Fun and Profit by jerf on Thursday April 11, 2024 @03:07PM (#40005653)
This is another way of looking at the concept of Kolmogorov Complexity and relating it to real life... which thing you consider the most "natural" encoding of these concepts, and thus the "shortest", can depend very heavily on your "native mathematical language". One not even reach out to strange hypothetical aliens who think utterly different than us. Multiple people all firmly raised in the modern conventional human mathematical landscape can vary, as is seen right here.

Though it does occur to me to wonder what an alien in a very obviously hyperbolic universe would consider the most natural. Or one of the beings that lives in Greg Egan's universe with two time and two space dimensions.

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