Comment by btilly
2 years ago
English grammar can be. Buffalo is an animal, a city, and a verb meaning "to bewilder and confuse". As a result the following can be proven.
The word buffalo, repeated any number of times, can always be parsed into a valid English sentence. If the number of times it appears is prime, it can only be parsed into ONE possible English sentence.
This is clearly a statement of mathematics!
No, it is a mathematical statement about linguistics. It should not be surprising that mathematics can be used to describe things. Everything in the universe can be described by mathematics--even truly random, acausal events have probability distributions which are described by mathematics. But being described by mathematics does not make it mathematics. That's a type error.