Is Math Discovered or Invented? (Excreted)
One absurd answer to whether math is discovered or invented: excreted.
Content note: Mild gross-out.
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"Neither. It is excreted, and later congeals." [someone steps in a green puddle of the quadratic formula: "yech…"]