--- title: "Principles of Addition and the 'Missing Children' paradox." authors: - resident_father created_at: 2017-03-22 00:00:00 updated_at: 2017-03-23 00:00:00 tags: - family - children - wheredidyougo tldr: | It has long been understood that the result of counting objects is order-sensitive. In this post we prove and demonstrate for the first time in human history that counting objects is actually associative and commutative, putting to rest the long-standing "missing children" paradox. ---