If whoever replaced Danuser said “Azeroth is a world where 2+2=5,” how would you react? Would you accept it at face value? Would you try to get around the impossibility of it by saying “Well, I guess they use a different counting system on Azeroth?” Would you discard it as the ravings of someone mad?
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It’d be dumb as hell but it’s not like the player can do anything about it if the writing really wanted to enforce that from then on for some reason.
I imagine that even if it did happen, it’d end up quickly retconned because it’d end up impossible to reinforce without making 5 the new 4 and coming up with a new name for a replacement 5, rendering the change moot.
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Ah yes Sir Terrance Howard of Stormwind the brave pioneer of Neux Math
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Insert the gif of Nick Fury saying " I recognize that the Council has made a decision. But given that it’s a stupid decision, I’ve elected to ignore it."
But I’m someone who just kinda glosses over SL. My characters know that some characters got kidnapped by the Mawsworn and that the Ebon Blade and some others went to fetch them, but that’s it. I’d do the same if Blizz tried to reenforce 2+2=5. It would also be no different than me RPing my characters as not the hero of Azeroth or the leader of their class’s hall.
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it’d be immediately ignored as illogical nonsense that falls apart under it’s own weight
characters in a story can do stupid things because they’re stupid, but math is math
There’s been much worse in the story, such as BfA. I’d call it dumb, and then move on.
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Maths is a language, 2+2=4 is a description of a physical phenomenon. A statement like 2+2=5 is effectively a lie innately.
TLDR no
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It’s called interest. Or Taxes. Or inflation. Welcome to Financial Math. No, it doesn’t make sense. No, I don’t think they care.
Underrated reference.
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I’d be rather fascinated to see it in action.
Given the inconsistent power levels and morality across expansions, aren’t some already doing that?
Assume they were just stupid.
Considering we probably have tons of examples in-game of characters counting and adding to four, I would believe this.
I was quite certain that 2 + 
= 5…
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I would think that the number we know as 4 in Azeroth is called 5, and the number we know as 5 is called four, or I would think that the way they do math is different, maybe there is an implied extra 1 when they do plus operations. Or the number they call 2 doesnt’t mean 2, or that they do decimals in their head but only write rounding the numbers down and this operation was actually 2.5 + 2.5.
Basically i would headcanon a way out of the inconsistency.
“Context it is said, is the matter of kings”
-William Shakespeare.