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Box, I think you're confusing multiplication and addition...If I eat one jelly bean every hour, and it's been one hour I have eaten one jelly bean (1*1 = 1)If I eat 3 jelly beans every hour and it has been zero hours I have eaten zero jelly beans--I haven't started yet. (3*0 = 0)If I eat zero jelly beans every hour and it has been 24 hours I have eaten zero jelly beans--and I never will. (0*24 = 0)If one jelly bean weighs 0.001 kg and one kg of jelly beans costs thirty five dollars and I eat 5 jelly beans per hour and continue doing so for 200 days, each of which is twentyfour hours long, how much would that cost? 0.001*35*5*24*200 = 840or with units, since that is important too:35 $/kg * 0.001 kg/bean * 5 beans/hour * 24 hours/day * 200 days = 840 $(quite a jelly bean habit)I hope this helps...Tune in next week for division!
You missed the point entirely. ''If I eat one jelly bean every hour, and it's been one hour I have eaten one jelly bean (1*1 = 1)''you maths should read 1 jelly bean * 1 hour = 1 jelly bean per hour
Quote from: Thebox on 18/04/2015 12:41:09You missed the point entirely. ''If I eat one jelly bean every hour, and it's been one hour I have eaten one jelly bean (1*1 = 1)''you maths should read 1 jelly bean * 1 hour = 1 jelly bean per hourgiven what I said it should be 1 hour * 1 jelly bean per hour = one jelly beanalso, 1 jelly bean * 1 hour = 1 jelly bean hour; not one jelly bean per hour
surely you jest
because one=3=1=0=zero point space, If I have 1m and I want to enlarge the distance by itself, 1*1=2m Because 2 m is 1 times bigger than 1 m.
Quote from: Thebox on 18/04/2015 23:27:49because one=3=1=0=zero point space, If I have 1m and I want to enlarge the distance by itself, 1*1=2m Because 2 m is 1 times bigger than 1 m.Mr. Box,............I suggest you give up on science and try something less complicated, something like maybe "crochet"?
I suggest you give up science if you can not understand the simplicity of what numbers are.
Quote from: Thebox on 19/04/2015 12:30:22I suggest you give up science if you can not understand the simplicity of what numbers are.Ethos fully understands numbers, what he can't understand is your misuse of operators.
1 as a number on itself is the same as 0, it has no value on itself, no number does, that is why the answer is always zero,
one has 3 digits, one=3, 3 is 1 digit, 3=1, 1 is one digit,so 1=0 , 0 is equal to empty space and so on.....
Quote from: Thebox on 19/04/2015 13:27:10one has 3 digits, one=3, 3 is 1 digit, 3=1, 1 is one digit,so 1=0 , 0 is equal to empty space and so on.....So one hundred=11, one hundred=3 hundred, 11=2, 2=1Hence 3=2I get it now, really useful stuff. I suggest you write the textbook showing how it all fits together.
Can you just imagine him working as your friendly teller at your local bank? "Say there Mr. Box, I'd like some change for my twenty, make that two or three Franklins and maybe four or five Jefferson's. And throw in a couple of what ever else you have just laying around unattended. What ever suit's your fancy there Mr. Box.....Teller."
I think I've also got the hang of the operators. For consistency, 3*2=5 and 5=1Quote from: Ethos_ on 19/04/2015 16:47:37 Can you just imagine him working as your friendly teller at your local bank? "Say there Mr. Box, I'd like some change for my twenty, make that two or three Franklins and maybe four or five Jefferson's. And throw in a couple of what ever else you have just laying around unattended. What ever suit's your fancy there Mr. Box.....Teller."I'm reminded of the rather dim forger who goes into a bank to change a 29 dollar note. The teller looks at the note, looks at the forger and says "certainly sir, will two 11s and a 7 be alright?"
Quote from: Thebox on 19/04/2015 13:27:10 1 as a number on itself is the same as 0, it has no value on itself, no number does, that is why the answer is always zero, Dimensionless numbers like the fine structure constant are very real. So is the dimensionless number pi,
Ok, so we understand part of your idea, but getting back to the question by EthosQuote from: Ethos_ on 19/04/2015 15:34:54Quote from: Thebox on 19/04/2015 13:27:10 1 as a number on itself is the same as 0, it has no value on itself, no number does, that is why the answer is always zero, Dimensionless numbers like the fine structure constant are very real. So is the dimensionless number pi, Where do pi and other isolated numbers fit in. Are they, to retain consistency, zero?