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Re: My amateurview of math.
Posted:
Feb 1, 2013 9:14 AM
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"JT" <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:53b7da79-6cab-4adc-8050-7236efb3770a@f6g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
On 1 Feb, 09:59, "christian.bau" <christian....@cbau.wanadoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> On Feb 1, 8:51 am, JT <jonas.thornv...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Well just my few thoughts around numbers.
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>> Go to your bathroom.
>> Count how many elephants there are.
>> How many? The answer is zero.
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>> If you watch an elephant leaving your bathroom, how many elephants are
>> in the bathroom then?
>> There were none, then one left, so now there are minus one elephants
>> in your bathroom.
>If there is zero elephants i hardly need to count it or them.
>Well if you show me the negative elephant i will count it.
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>But rather say i have 1 dollar in wallet, and you steal it and i am
>simply out of money
"out of money" = zero = 0
>but there isn't minus 1 dollar in wallet.
he stole only 1, 1-1 = 0
>But you
>do owe me 1 dollar and i have a claim upon you.
but that is not what is in your wallet, and that is 0 dollars.
>And that is do not dream up things that aren't countable.
I count none, no dollars, which is zero dollars.
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