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When dealing with abstract ideas such as those that are employed in designing a software system it can be the case that we implicitly assert erroneous assumptions when making statements concerning our view of the world. For example, we say that the area of a circle is πr 2 under the implicit assumption that we can measure the area of a circle when in fact we cannot because it is impossible to quantify the irrational number π.
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Booth, D.J. (1995). Counting. In: Foundation Discrete Mathematics for Computing. Tutorial Guides in Computing and Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7114-2_4
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