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Nick	Sep 25 2008, 12:41 PM
Brit Posts: 6,491 Group: Judge Member #659 Joined: March 8, 2006	...then what did you mean by 'Math can be about discovering, but that does not mean that it came up by a discovery'? The discovery that II + II = IIII was indeed a discovery (using markings, not numerals): the person who drew the first II II / IIII and equated the two was discovering the logic (i.e. discovering a mathematical truth) and perhaps inventing a symbol (other people'd probably made similar scratchings before), which is inventing a linguistic rather than a mathematical truth. I assume everyone is aware that language and symbols are man-made. I believe the question refers to the logic itself.
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