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Re:If you had an app that told you the truth, would you use it? by PythonDeveloper on Saturday September 22, 2012 @12:47PM (#4558280)
Exactly. The "truth" is relative.
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Re:If you had an app that told you the truth, would you use it? by mcartyem on Saturday September 22, 2012 @11:21PM (#4559846)
The truth based on criteria for truth. Irrefutable truths exist, like 1 + 1 = 2.
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Re:If you had an app that told you the truth, would you use it? by Clotho on Sunday September 23, 2012 @10:39AM (#4561027)
Except when 1 + 1 = 10
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Re:If you had an app that told you the truth, would you use it? by michael_fine on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @05:50PM (#4578238)
Yes, but the first one is still universal, just it's assumed that we are talking about base 10.
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Re:If you had an app that told you the truth, would you use it? by dgunn on Friday September 28, 2012 @08:52AM (#4585214)
In base 10, 1+1 is still equal to 10 for very large values of 1.
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