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Is math big or small?

26 pointsby robinhoustonyesterday at 8:25 AM7 commentsview on HN

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mkltoday at 3:56 AM

> When Illustrating a mathematical idea, the first thing you need to decide is the scale.

I have spent much of my life illustrating mathematical ideas, and scale is never the first thing I decide. Most commonly it stays abstract and there is no scale; it's flexible and I can zoom in and out at will. Sometimes I will choose a scale partway through or towards the end of an explanation, if I want to use a specific analogy, but I can comfortably rescale it to something else - the scale is never fixed.

Interesting to see such a different view.

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N_Lenstoday at 1:40 AM

Good article.

Math is smaller than the smallest and bigger than the biggest.

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trendbuildertoday at 4:26 AM

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