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by d0mine 844 days ago
It is not about human language being imprecise. I can formulate the questions using the math language precisely with the exact same result (different number of roots are possible for different formulations of the problem for the same "physical" (coefficients of the quadratic equation) setup).

The Map is not the Territory.

Different maps can be useful. No true map.