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revskill ◴[] No.44363585[source]
We need a word-less world of math where all meaning is derived from figures. WOrds are confusing.

"If you can't describe the meaning using only pencils and compass, you don't mean it"

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novaRom ◴[] No.44363632[source]
And especially when we mix different categories. Like saying about any infinity as about an object is misleading, because it's rather a process
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Sharlin ◴[] No.44363700[source]
Infinities (transfinite cardinals) in the sense used by the article are absolutely objects. We’re not talking about infinite sums or other sequences and their limits. (And limits aren’t really “processes” either – the limit of the sequence 0.9, 0.99, 0.999, … is exactly 1, as a well-known example which nonetheless is controversial among people who don’t know what limits are.)
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1. revskill ◴[] No.44364073[source]
Object in OOP ?
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2. Sharlin ◴[] No.44365482[source]
Mathematical objects, like numbers, sets, matrices, functions, …