I don’t have a copy of the book, but the Principa Mathematica includes the proof of 1 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica)

It’s also been augued in several courts that software, binaries included aren’t a mathematical constant, but a set of machine instructions, however encoded, and that the processes the software uses to produce a result are works of copyright, regardless whether the products themselves can be copyrighted. This legal argument has been the cornerstone of both the IBM v Compaq and Google v Oracle cases, as well as others like SCO v Novell.

Since copyright and trademark law are protected internationally via several treatises, these decisions hold wide merit.

And nice, bringing politics into a factual discussion, because you have no real arguments.
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Just in case anybody would ponder if you know what you are talking about, here is page 36 of Principia Mathematica, where 1 is defined, without any proof whatsoever.

Maybe I need to "get an education" ¹ but please, tell me where you got your so that I won't repeat your waste of money and time. 😉

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1) as you suggested here: chungus.cc/notice/AHQjqzgCD9TM

Uhh, that page just defines what variables are and how they can be used in an equation.

They are using x=1 to solve for a, since it would make x=a. The entire book is almost 200 pages to prove 1+1=2 and 1>0 and 1 != i

In order to do that, the author needs to prove out that variables scale with the inputs of an equation, and that the lowest real value is 1.
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