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geometea · 2 years ago

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also ngl some of y’all take your headcanons way too seriously (continuum hypothesis fans im looking at u)

like im not saying you’re wrong but canon isn’t exactly complete and it’s just as consistent that actually it’s not

and yes i know that argument is kinda forced and relies on fuzzy logic BUT that’s not exactly very constructive of some of y’all so take ur L lol

The maths fandom is wild. “Real” and “imaginary” numbers? I think you mean canon and non-canon. You guys seriously go “this is my number oc his name is i and he is the square root of -1” when in numbers canon lore it’s actually impossible to square root a negative but sure whatever. “Complex numbers”? I think you mean a character x oc ship. “f(x) = 3x - 5”? That is self-insert fanfiction.

#sorry #the opportunity was there #jokes explained in excruciating depth: continuum hypothesis is a famous example of maths being incomplete #as in it’s been proved that we cannot prove it either way #from the preexisting rules of maths #the way that’s done is showing consistence #if you assume it’s true do you break maths? no. if you assume it’s false do you break maths? also no #the consistency of the CH being false was shown by a technique called forcing #which uses ‘fuzzy logic’#the consistency of it being true was shown via Godels constructible hierarchy #also called the L hierarchy #think that’s everything

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