POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS…AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.
Addition and multiplication are commutative in most number systems, and, in particular, between natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers and complex numbers.
It is quite possible that we are descending into an age in which two plus two will make five when the Leader says so. George Orwell, review of Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell in The Adelphi (January 1939)