when math was being invented, how did they know they were getting the right answers?

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like we know now how to get certain answers through different processes and all that fun stuff. but when they were first coming up with it, how did they know they were doing it right?

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someone already said it but ill say it again, math is discovered, not invented. As for the getting the right answers, it’s usually done by proof. If you can prove your answer is right, then it is. You might ask yourself how did they know their proving methods worked? etc. That’s because all the theorems and lemmas are “built” on top of asymptotes aka the stuff that is inherently true, without the need of any proof.

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