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Does 1 + 1 = 2?

Posted on the 30 November 2014 by Calvinthedog

Assuming you define all your terms correctly, yes it does. On page 379 of Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Ludwig Wittgenstein, they finally getting round to proving this:

1 + 1 = 2 indeed, and here is the very roundabout way of proving it. Personally, I would rather hold up two fingers and count them, but to each his own.

1 + 1 = 2 indeed, and here is the very roundabout way of proving it. Personally, I would rather hold up two fingers and count them, but to each his own.

And in Base2 (binary), 1 + 1 should be 10.

For all intents and purposes though, the vast majority of time for the overwhelming majority of people, 1 and 1 does indeed equal two, so the equation of pretty much like death and taxes in that sense.


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