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Absurd

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Absurd or The Absurd may refer to:

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Philosophy and logic

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  • Absurdity, general and technical usage—associated with extremely poor reasoning, the ridiculous, or nonsense

Math

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An Absurd is a result, so a number, leads to a provable mathematical contraddiction. For example if there will exists an integer number X>0 for what be A<B two integer Numbers, than the equality A*X=B produce an Absurd. Usually in math papers the Latin word "Absurdum" is used.