Post #2114075
2026-05-06 20:34 UTC
@jupiter
Algorithms are ONE form of math.
You're free to prefer whichever branches of math you feel like, just like you're free to like some kinds of cheese and not others (or none, or all) — that's not on cheese tho, just on your taste. Same with math. ;3
[Also with "removed from reality"… Pretty much every new abstract brach over the last centuries has found practical applications. One just needs to look at the right place, at the right time, with the right mental state… Some night be obvious, some might require eating a certain mushroom on a blue moon while wearing a sock on your right hand and dancing on top of the whiteboard with a spoon on your nose, but they're all there. x)]
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@jupiter@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-06 21:09
@yenndc Yeah but for instance I think of imaginary numbers or Quaternions and something tells me the fact we need these things implies that something with the foundations of our mathematics is wrong. So we use workarounds to express what in "reality" is probably an entirely different beast than something that turns out to be "kinda neat" as a rotation in the complex plane. Or transcendent numbers, or undecidable problems, or iNfiNiTiEs. Speaking of, I'm also a bit of an ultrafinitist, ngl.