58 and other Confusing Numbers - Numberphile
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Tom: We tend to think that numbers are a universal language like if there was a extraterrestrial single the hit Earth, that it would start with one plus one is two and it would work up from there and work from there and work up from there and then eventually we're building a machine opens a wormhole to Vega. And that's a really good idea for formal mathematics and formal logic it might work... but the way that humans actually use numbers and we talk to each other it is not nearly as universal as you might think I mean I should say I'm a linguist not a mathematician. I've kind of moved over to numberphile briefly here but to my background's linguistics and the number of ways that humans use numbers... The number of ways that humans use n...
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Tom: We tend to think that numbers are a universal language like if there was a extraterrestrial single the hit Earth, that it would start with one plus one is two and it would work up from there and work from there and work up from there and then eventually we're building a machine opens a wormhole to Vega. And that's a really good idea for formal mathematics and formal logic it might work... but the way that humans actually use numbers and we talk to each other it is not nearly as universal as you might think I mean I should say I'm a linguist not a mathematician. I've kind of moved over to numberphile briefly here but to my background's linguistics and the number of ways that humans use numbers... The number of ways that humans use n...
