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It seems that different languages have different levels of precision.

English, with its notorious ambiguity, jargon, idiom, &c seems to be very imprecise. German, with its very specific words for very specific things and a high level of succinctness, seems much more precise.

Could it be that mathematics as a language is just the language that is the most precise that we know of currently?

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