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[–] jagungal@aussie.zone 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

Ok, good point. So what are you trying to say? That the general public should use the more specific word for the benefit of mathematicians?

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

My only point is that it's silly to mathematicians that the majority of people use the word "math(s)" to refer exclusively to arithmetic.

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