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[ My understanding of Bohr's cut is that "2+2=4" is all that science and math can say about the subject of 2+2 in base 10. ]

Having studied number systems some or even a lot, to even do what I did in the past.. The concept of base "this or that" came hard to me.. But eventually it got through to me..

The way it did get though to me, was realizing that 2 is 2 no matter the system you're using.. even in binary 2 is 2.. even it looks like 10 its still 2.. 2+2=4 is true no matter the number system you use.. 2 apples are 2 apples.. the only way they can become three apples.. is not by changing the base number system they are calculated in but by adding another apple..

I laughed when "sophomores" came up to me in college with " You have your truth and I have mine"... thereby makeing "truth" an opinion.. degrading the concept of truth to a sphere around themselves..

Can the same gross narcissism effect "scientists" educated in "the scientific principle".. changing the BASE of an argument hoping that will confuse "the Simple".?... Of course that was a rhetorical question but it brings forth another question in my mind.. "as simple as it is"..

Are there any checks and balances to "scientists" infected with this "gross narcissism" or even "chronic narcissism" to spare the rest of us the dose of "clap trap".. that will surely come from it.?. You know, from chronic narcissism of "scientists".. I hesitate to include P-marlow in this.. He whips chronic narcissists like a rented donkey.. a very mean person.. but quite entertaining.. <<- does that make me a bad person.. Oh! well...

Thank you so much for your reply!

I do understand the frustration with such specificity as my adding the term "base 10" in the reply.

Around here, a lack of specificity can result in a completely unnecessary sidebar. That’s why I did it (2+2 is not 4 in base 3).

Concerning bases, long ago a discussion of auto-correlation of a digitized alpha/numeric string finally, after days, ended in a showing of the difference in auto-correlation between a binary or decimal rendering of Champernowne’s constant.

Sometimes it is just “narcissism" at you say, but then sometimes it is the pond the correspondents’ swim in when they are not Freeping.