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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by chestervonwinch on Thursday July 09, 2015 @08:42PM (#9861696)
"I'art pour I'art" should be "l'art pour l'art".

I'm only nitpicking because I recently started compiling a list of interesting quotes and intend to save this one :)

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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by antimagic on Friday July 10, 2015 @05:41AM (#9863031)
Is this some kind of affirmational statement, kind of a counter to "ceci n'est pas une pipe"????
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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by rndn on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:58AM (#9863206)
It basically suggests an intrinsic motivation in something. The pipe statement suggests that there is a difference between an actual thing and a representation of it.
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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by reagency on Thursday July 09, 2015 @11:13PM (#9862103)
You wrote the same quote twice.
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Re:Will Our Understanding of Math Deteriorate Over Time? by LGBT_2000 on Friday July 10, 2015 @12:12AM (#9862262)
I had to read it over and ended up pastiing it into IPython before I realized that.
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