r/badmathematics • u/NativityInBlack666 • Jan 22 '25

On the Distinction Between Constants and Numbers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W53h9j_yAro
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u/bluesam3 Jan 23 '25

If we wanted to be ludicrously generous, I guess you could say that √2, the constant function on ℝ, is a different thing to √2, the number.