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4:05 PM

Which is right? 2 and 5 is 8 ,or 2 and 5 are 8?

A customer got me with this mainly because he first asked if I'm good with English... of course I answered incorrectly cause I was thinking in terms of English and not Math.... So Anywho it got me thinking a little bit about perspective.
Now perspective can be defined as multiple things depending at what angle you are coming from (that being one of the definitions of the word itself) And it really makes some things just look outright funny. I mean even ones perspective of the word perspective can change. Do you think of it as how close or far an object is when you hear the word. Or does your mind instantly think "Peoples different points of view on an issue"?

Well whichever is the case you end up participating in examining perspective just by answering that question.

So when you look at the title question, you can be right if you say "2 and 8 is 5" because you are looking at the grammar in an English perspective. Or you can be correct by saying "Both statements are wrong!" Because you are answering from a mathematical perspective.
So yeah, that's perspective in a nutshell. It's a fun thing to play around with. I like confusing people.

As Masa would say "It's delicious" and then he'd eat... Where did you get that sandwich from Masa?
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