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It's a simple way to highlight how different perspectives can lead to vastly different conclusions.

But 1+1=10 and 1+1=2 are not different conclusions, they are precisely the same conclusions but with different representations.

A better example might be 9 vs 6 written on the parking floor: depending on where you're standing, you'll read the number differently (and yet one of the readings is wrong).

(and yet one of the readings is wrong).

It may not even be a number which is written, but the hiragana の (no).

It could be Japanese beeper slang and mean Q.

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