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woopsn
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Is mathematics mostly chaos or mostly order?
When was the circle discovered? When it became essential to physics?
mjburgess
4 minutes ago
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When it was essential to perception. Its necessary to have a model of a circle (, elipse...) in order to correctly parse (at least,) visual perception -- because space is inherently geometrical.
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