csandazoltan

csandazoltan t1_iyc8rms wrote

It is about setting down some ground rules so everyone arrives to the same solution.

It would be chaos if rules were arbitrary. Just imagine if one computer arrives to different math solution and you suddenly have 20% less money in your account.

It is like this in every field of science, including math, that you need to define the basic rules and frame of reference.

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There was a NASA debacle, that after 10 months the Mars Climate Orbiter got destroyed. The reason was, that one of the engineers used imperaial measures instead of metric.

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Things that drive or contribute daily lives should have one possible right answer, ambiguity leads to issues and errors

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