Plese, remind me why math isnt a jewish pseudoscience, consisting of abstraction and casuistry, that has nothing to do with empirical.
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Anonymous2011-02-03 7:03
I see math as a tool. I see /prog/ as a collection of confused racists that reject a tool because of a perverse association to their object of hatred.
I use inductive proofs in my work to test the validity of various solutions. Completing an inductive proof shows that a statement involving a given variable 'k' holds true at a given original value of 'k' and also at every value greater than the original value of 'k'. I understand that the value of 'k' will never reach infinity due to the restrictions of our physical world, however using the abstract concept of infinity to determine that a statement will hold true at an arbitrarily high 'k' is quite useful.