Reply #66: Yup [View All]

[zipplewrath]

Which isn't exactly what I'm saying. Close, and I understand the danger of the argument. However, we are talking about 10,000 years of history, and billions of people. Furthermore, most of algebra is based upon "postulate" that we accept to be true, without proof, because they are basically obvious to the most casual observer (or professed to be anyway, more than one high school student would like to differ). It would seem at some point, the assertion at least deserve consideration as some sort of axiom or postulate.