User blog comment:Primussupremus/A pataphysical view of the basic operators/@comment-1605058-20170324181738

A few questions:

With subtraction, how do you know which digit to subtract? For example, what is 12121-2?

If the first number has no digit of the second number, what is the difference? For example, what is 123-4?

How do you determine where to split the number using division? For example, why is 566/2=56,6 and not, say, 5,66?

What if the first number has fewer digits than the second? For example, what is 4/5?

Why is 5*5 = 5+5? If that's a typo and it should be 5+5+5+5+5, why is it not 55555?

Similarly, shouldn't 10*4 be 10+10+10+10=10101010?

Lastly, what the hell does it have to do with pataphysics?

Also, it might be worth a mention that this addition and multiplication are known as hypermathematics.