title: Jul 15 2022 - 01:01:20 AM
date: 2022-07-15 01:01:20
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It's not that we know. We chose that N+1 is always true as a rule, then we build math on top of that an so far it works OK. But sometimes it doesn't. Add all positive numbers and it breaks. Maybe some properties don't extend ad infinitum.