Is it common for scientists to forget basic math?

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mal4mac said:
1 + 1 = 2 doesn't work in cloud algebra...

What's cloud algebra? lol.
 
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Shackleford said:
Yeah, that damn commutativity of scalar multiplication is quite befuddling! lol.

Nobody said those numbers are from a field! Maybe they are just from plain old Z. What a horrible joke! Jokes.
 

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