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by Retra 3011 days ago
Math works so well because we consistently abandon any math that doesn't work well.
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And where the math of reality seems ugly or awkward or contrived, we invent notation to make it look neat and simple.

The reason why math education takes so many years is to learn all the complexity, conventions and abuse of notation. As in speech and image interpretation, the adept cannot see the complexity.

You can make anything simple by inventing a language to state it in. Use custom entities instead of multiplying them.