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Old 06-17-2006, 07:49 PM   #32
MicoSiru

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It is a different language. It has a certain Je ne sais quoi. Cinq is fundamentally different from five, as is cinque, and funf. The signified might be the same, but the signifier is different, as they're all from different languages.

Anyway, you wanted to know how mathematics was a form of communication, and seem to have conceded the point already.
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