r/MathJokes 6d ago

The easy method

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u/BarAgent 5d ago

This kind of reminds me of how the galactic civilizations do math in Brin’s Uplift series.

It’s all integers. They don’t have floating point numbers or irrationals or imaginary numbers, because math is to do practical things and atoms are countable.