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Post #32 by Turias
Source ForumMacNN
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateTue, 30 Dec 2003 - 15:39
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050515015326/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=195041
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Originally posted by Stradlater:
Is math ambiguous?


Well, that question sure is.

But seriously, certain areas of math are quite ambiguous. The Banach-Tarski paradox describes how, using current mathematical practices, one can prove that it is possible to take a sphere with volume x, cut it up into a finite number of pieces, and reassemble those pieces into two spheres, both with a volume of x.

Right... What kind of "truth" is that?

To be fair, though, when I made my comment about language being ambiguous, I wasn't really referring to the language of mathematics.