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>In Mochizuki’s mappings,
the measuring sticks are locally compatible
with one another.
But when you go around the circle,
Stix said, you end up with a measuring stick
that looks different from
if you had gone around the other way.
The situation, he said, is akin to Escher’s
famous winding staircase,
which climbs and climbs only to
somehow end up below where it started.

>This incompatibility in the volume
measurements means that the resulting
inequality is between the wrong quantities,
Scholze and Stix assert.
And if you adjust things so the volume
measurements are globally compatible,
then the inequality becomes meaningless,
they say