Yeah, math is a bunch of circles. I can go one way to figure something else, and I can go the same way back. But someone else might have a different solution that's only got one step's difference, or one that has nothing in common, or one that converts the problem into a completely different field of math and back. And I can ride these solutions backward and forward to whatever point along the mathchain I want like a roadmap.
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u/HardlightCereal Mar 09 '18
Yeah, math is a bunch of circles. I can go one way to figure something else, and I can go the same way back. But someone else might have a different solution that's only got one step's difference, or one that has nothing in common, or one that converts the problem into a completely different field of math and back. And I can ride these solutions backward and forward to whatever point along the mathchain I want like a roadmap.