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contraposittoday at 9:08 AM1 replyview on HN

I also liked the one on lambda calculus. I hope one day we will be able to find interpretation of what it actually means for PLUS Times Plus. Maybe this is how we will explore nonstandard arithmetic.

What is PLUS times PLUS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcVA8Nj6HEo


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sillysaurusxtoday at 9:51 AM

Godel's incompleteness theorem lets you turn PLUS into a number, do some operations on it, and then turn it back into a symbol. So PLUS times PLUS already has a definite answer. Perhaps not a sensible one, but a definite one.

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