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theglandcanyon t1_jb7xukq wrote

Reply to comment by TheNarfanator in Wittgenstein’s Revenge (this genuinely changed the way I look at the world) by ElliElephant

It's not something we would usually say. "Arithmetic in base 10", maybe.

My objection, expressed more rudely than it should have been, was to placing "base 10 math" as a field of mathematics alongside algebra, etc.

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TheNarfanator t1_jb8sku5 wrote

No worries.

Thanks for the clarification. Meaning and intention is difficult for me to get across. Sometimes the ambiguity helps. Sometimes it hurts.

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