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Just noticed, they new matrix omake.
I found it awesome, but noticed that the last line is a plot hole. Even if the world doesn't run on mathematics, that doesn't preclude physics textbooks.
After all, humanity must have understood how the world works well enough at some point to built the AIs.
I kicked myself when I read it for not having considered the doesn't-run-on-math possibility before.
Consider what Neo knows: the world he grew up in, which resembles ours, is really a computer simulation. Which features of that world should he most expect not to hold in the real world? Near the top of the list should be that the fundamental laws of physics look suspiciously like a computer program.