Math is the modeling of logic. There is no such object as the number ten. Ten is the base of numbers because we decide it is. The Greeks had something like six or something and it would not have been difficult to count by sixes because that is just what they used.
It's not that their logic was different, their way of modeling it was.
So I hate to break this to you, but as much as we like to pretend math is a universal language of we were contacted by aliens the chance that we would be able to initially read eachothers' math is slim
Math is just a language of communicating logic.
We would have to learn eachothers' languages of logic, somehow.
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So in a weird sense, is math heiroglphics for logic?
No, that doesn't seem quite right. It is more systmatic than heioglypic or pictograohic.
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