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		Clotho on Sept 23, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If you had an app that told you the truth, would y... Except when 1 + 1 = 10

michael_fine on Sept 26, 2012 [–]

Yes, but the first one is still universal, just it's assumed that we are talking about base 10.

dgunn on Sept 28, 2012 | [–]

In base 10, 1+1 is still equal to 10 for very large values of 1.

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