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People think in units, don't they?
« on: 04/07/2024 10:29:48 »
Hi,

"The unit of social intercourse is called a transaction. ..."

page 24, Transactional Analysis
https://archive.org/details/games-people-play-the-psycholo-eric-berne/mode/2up?view=theater


Dr. Eric Berne is a mathematician.
 
= = =

Then the unit of "Reality" is...

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Then the unit of speech is...

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Then the unit of... is...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit


= = =


Mathematics, a Human Endeavor A Textbook for Those Who Think They Don't Like the Subject
by Harold R. Jacobs
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g2Sccp-guMlasHNDYx31Bdq1PpvQzavT/view?usp=sharing


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Life gives the answers

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Re: People think in units, don't they?
« Reply #1 on: 04/07/2024 11:23:46 »
Good to see that people are still reading Eric Berne.

Your problem is that Berne used "unit" in its colloquial meaning as "pretty much any set with a boundary", which can signify, say, an "industrial unit" (a building) or one of the packages or individual products within it, whereas you seem to be interpreting it in its physics sense as "a defined quantity", say a second or a gram.
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Re: People think in units, don't they?
« Reply #2 on: 04/07/2024 12:51:52 »
Hi, alancalverd,

Thank you for your response.

"God made the integers, all else is the work of man"
Leopold Kronecker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker

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math:

- basic things;

- axioms (a definition is an axiom);

- theorems.

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line segment - there are not the 1st and the 2nd point

Greeks, number (line segment without 1st and 2nd), Constructible number
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructible_number

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vector (line segment with the 1st and the 2nd point)
direction/order

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a ray in a plane (2-d)

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the 1st ray (the 0th direction) and the 2nd ray, and the vertex 
(the 1st vector and the 2nd vector)


the Complex number:

the Positive number (0 [degree], x [m])

the Negative number (180 [degree], x [m])

Any complex number (y [degree], x [m])

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the poor cousin
(-1).(-1) = (180 [degree], 1 [m]).(180 [degree], 1 [m]) = 1 = (360 [degree] = 0 [degree], 1 [m])
/one adds the angles and multiplies the distances/

the rich cousin
i.i = -1 = (90 [degree], 1 [m]).(90 [degree], 1 [m])

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intersecting lines in a plane:

- "infinite" point /parallel lines, the distance between the lines in metres/

- "finite" point /the distance between the rays is the length of the arc in metres (at some distance from the point)
/actually, the length of the arc divided by the distance from the "finite" point [m/m]/
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Re: People think in units, don't they?
« Reply #3 on: 04/07/2024 14:16:10 »

"The unit of social intercourse is called a transaction. ..."

was the ackhaaa moment.

Coming To America... "Where's the Spoon"... Eddie Murphy as Saul the Jewish Guy
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Re: People think in units, don't they?
« Reply #4 on: 04/08/2024 16:07:57 »
Hi,

God made the integers, all else is the work of man.
Leopold Kronecker

Yes, god created things and spaces, and flows too.

= = =

The "+" sign is not always addition, it is also completion (complementarity).

You can "add" scalars and vectors! From Zero to Geo 1.11

= = =

A Swift Introduction to Geometric Algebra

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The Vector Algebra War

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...
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Re: People think in units, don't they?
« Reply #5 on: 06/08/2024 09:46:21 »
Hi,

Once one needed a black board (not green), a chalk (white), a straightedge and a pair of compasses.

compass (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/word/compass#etymonline_v_17257


Constructibility 1: Compass & Straightedge

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Axiom 3: The Most Important Axiom in Math

4:24 min.
"So mathematicians thought for a whole while on how to solve Russell's paradox,
how to solve this dire situation in math. And they came to a conclusion that the set R is not
actually a set. You cannot expect to throw things in a container and build a set like that..."



One could compare with

"Basic concepts:  Thing, Connection/Space

 Connection/Space is a thing but it is not a thing to things it connects/contains."

= = =

After more than 3 000 years Latin verb be and Russian (, ... (other languages)) verb be are
almost exactly the same. "Indo-European" languages?!

Irregular Verbs: sum, esse


быть / b?tʹ
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B1%D1%8B%D1%82%D1%8C

/one has to hit
/Conjugation of бы́ть (class irreg-a/c imperfective intransitive)


j?smʹ                                 jesm?

jes? / j?sʹ                           j?ste

jestʹ                                  s?tʹ


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Romani, ite domum!

i-te (imperative, plural)

b?dʹte (imperative, plural)

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0-d space is all about politics.
/to stack "oranges" in other dimensions is not a politician's job/
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"Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy (~ /jon 'tihi/), p. 13" link

is not active.



Here is another:
https://ln5.sync.com/dl/9f132b950/ihqxhdma-sbn7gp27-8xzwygz2-t7cr2ra7

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and here are some more rules

Brewster's Millions (3/13) Movie CLIP - Thirty Million in Thirty Days (1985) HD


= = =

One perceives life as a machine. One is built that way, as a machine.
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Re: People think in units, don't they?
« Reply #6 on: 08/08/2024 13:10:36 »
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the sources




Dot products and duality | Chapter 9, Essence of linear algebra

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recognition hunger

Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro, Wag the dog - I want the credit!

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3rd Rock from the Sun, S6.E10, There's No Business Like Dick Business,
the first half of the last scene

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Adam Curtis' documentaries (all of them, many times)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

The Century of the Self - BBC Documentary (2002)

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Parkinson's law /Cyril N. Parkinson/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law


He derived the dictum from his extensive experience in the British Civil Service. He gave, as examples, the growth in the size of the British Admiralty and Colonial Office even though the numbers of their ships and colonies were declining.
/the 5th paragraph/


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The Logical Song - Supertramp (Lyrics)

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All?, monsieur ministre, ...

Le Professionnel (1981) - Chi Mai



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