Comment by travisjungroth
1 year ago
> There is no "clearly" in Math.
Sure there is. You don’t expect a paper to explain that the numbers are in decimal and not hexadecimal.
1 year ago
> There is no "clearly" in Math.
Sure there is. You don’t expect a paper to explain that the numbers are in decimal and not hexadecimal.
I don't know which ones you read so I can't comment on that, but the ones I read most definitely specify which fields of math they apply to, and which axioms are assumed true before doing the work, because the math is meaningless without that?
Papers on non-Euclidean spaces always call that out, because it changes which steps can be assumed safe in a proof, and which need a hell of a lot of motivation.
And of course, that said: yeah, there are papers for proofs about things normally associated with decimal numbers that explicit call out that the numbers they're going to be using are actually in a different base, and you're just going to have to follow along. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_base_13_function is probably the most famous example?