• @[email protected]
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      437 months ago

      It all equals zero. There is no purpose or meaning. Optimistic take: because that’s not what math does. Pessimistic take: because there is none.

      • _NoName_
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        67 months ago

        Optimist take: Because there is none! (whoo)

      • @reinei
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        57 months ago

        Optimistic take: because they just rearranged it to equal 0 by subtracting something from both sides as is often done in “these quantities are conserved” types of equations in physics!

        So we still don’t know the true purpose…

    • Live Your Lives
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      137 months ago

      I took it to be contrasting the “thrill of discovery” with doing math that would be boring and tedious to most people.