• nandeEbisu@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Notation without a definition of what notation you’re using is always going to be ambiguous.

      If I wrote

      6 9 * 6 9 + +

      You wouldn’t know what that is, until I told you it was reverse polish notation, then you would know it resolves to 69 and does the same operations as the original equation.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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        2 years ago

        You’re right, nobody defined the base of the numbers either. Come to think of it, what makes you think that those are numbers at all? That’s nothing but a random arrangement of pixels. I mean, who am I to tell you how to interpret the photons reaching your retina? You’re nothing but excitations in the electric fields in my neurons, anyways.