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Is mathematics discovered, developed, or both?

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Is mathematics discovered, developed, or both?
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RE: Is mathematics discovered, developed, or both?
November 22, 2016 at 11:11 am (This post was last modified: November 22, 2016 at 11:11 am by Excited Penguin.)
(November 22, 2016 at 11:02 am)Tiberius Wrote:
(November 22, 2016 at 10:57 am)Chas Wrote: If two bodies of equal mass are orbiting each other, the orbit is a circle.

It's not though. It looks very close to a what a circle looks like, but it will always be an approximation. If you got those bodies to leave a trail behind, and zoomed in on that trail, at some zoom level, you would find lots of straight lines at very small angles to each other, showing that the orbit was actually a many-sided polygon. A circle only has 1 side, and is made up of an infinite amount of points, which you can't get in the physical universe.
That's fucking fascinating. Is it really true though, or is it like the infinitely halved distance across the room thing ?
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Is mathematics discovered, developed, or both?

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Is mathematics discovered, developed, or both? - by Macoleco - November 6, 2016 at 11:43 am
RE: Is mathematics discovered, developed, or both? - by Chas - November 22, 2016 at 10:57 am
RE: Is mathematics discovered, developed, or both? - by Excited Penguin - November 22, 2016 at 11:11 am

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