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theparanoid on April 13, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: For mathematicians, = does not mean equality

A succinct summary is that mathematics is about understanding a thing and computing is about describing a concrete process.

jonnybgood on April 13, 2018 [–]

Depending on your philosophy of math, math also describes concrete processes.

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