Decius comments on The Emergence of Math - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Decius 04 November 2012 06:54:08PM 0 points [-]

It's a different error, because quantities aren't inherently algebraic, even though they very often behave as though they were.

For example, arranging apples in a grid three wide and two apples deep requires 6 apples, not 6 apples^2, even though the area of a grid two inches wide and two inches deep is 6 in^2.