• untakenusername@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    2+2 is a fact

    In some sense, if every single human thought that 2+2 equaled 5, it would become true

    (I’m not smart enough to come up with this lol, got it from Orwell’s 1984)

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      It doesn’t even require belief.

      2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.

      While a facetious statement in general, it is factual if those values derive from rounding. Significant Digits must be maintained.