POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Quotable : Re: Quotable Server Time
7 Sep 2024 19:13:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Quotable  
From: Warp
Date: 1 Jun 2008 04:42:08
Message: <484260e0@news.povray.org>
John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Is .5c + .5c = 1c mathematically valid?  Well, yes.

  The problem with that equation is that it lacks the proper context,
more precisely the topology used.

  In a linear cartesian space that equation is correct. However, the
context of the equation is not a linear cartesian space. Thus, in context,
it makes it invalid.

  I would say that mathematics can always be used to represent reality
when put in the proper context.

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                                                          - Warp


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