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Math is always the same, and (with most basic stuff) noncontroversial and not an opinion. You "know" that two of your fingers "added" to two other of your fingers "equals" four fingers in such a way that you are as "sure" about it as you can be about anything. Using math to describe the physical universe lends credibility, so that physics doesn't look like some wacky field of philosophy. Also, representative math problems can be solved while some puzzles in nature might be more difficult. Imagine physicists drawing pictures of rocks and light and shadows and things on a chalkboard instead of just showing each other agreed-upon math as it would necessarily be worked out by anyone educated in math.

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