Anybody else sick of the current math axioms?

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Anybody tired of those long, tedious proofs in ZFC?
Anybody tired of those annoying counterexamples to beautiful results?
Want to see a new kind of mathematics where everything works fine?

Try Falso: http://estatis.coders.fm/falso/
 
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