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[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Mathematicians are just bad at naming things. For example

  • Rings don’t resemble circles

  • Fields aren’t literal open spaces

  • Normal has about 20 different meanings

  • Chaos is not random

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