stackyFACTSInstead of appreciating a nice snowflake, mathematicians decided to rigidly define symmetry through abstract algebraic structures. It turns out that rotating a triangle and adding matrices follow the exact same abstract rules, proving that math is just an elaborate exercise in forcing unrelated things into the same category.
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