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From: Quora Digest <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: To a mathematician, is there any difference between 4+5 and 5+4? - Quora Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 17:24:20 +0000 Top Stories from Your Feed [PA'Quora Your Quora Digest To a mathematician, is there any difference between 4+5 and 5+4? tr,INI William La Chenal .4 i'ham 284.1k views It's 9:51, and a mathematician has a train to catch, and an important phone call to make at to:oo. The train leaves in 4 minutes 35 seconds. That's four minutes to get to the train & board, then five minutes to find a seat and get comfortable before getting out the mobile phone, for the important call. Or, it's five minutes to get to the platform in time see the the train vanishing in the distanc... Read More » Did Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have instructions of what to do if they couldn't take off from the moon? , C Stuart Hardwick, Scifi Author, Writers of the Future winner. Stua 48.8k views 2, Probably not. 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