Negative numbers should be an easy concept for LR's to understand. Think of it in terms of the number of women you stand to romance in your lifetime.
Negative numbers should be an easy concept for LR's to understand. Think of it in terms of the number of women you stand to romance in your lifetime.
ten foot pole wrote:
Negative numbers should be an easy concept for LR's to understand. Think of it in terms of the number of women you stand to romance in your lifetime.
You too agree that negative numbers are the same as zero?
-5/10
kaleetan wrote:
-5/10
+5/10
expert maths man wrote:
You cannot have anything below zero, it is illogical. Any maths that features negative numbers is WRONG
You're right. Sort of. Negative numbers can't be understood in the same way positive number can. You can't count -2 objects. Negative numbers are best understood as an operation. "-2" really means "subtract 2."
(Optional wrote:
-5 degrees is the same as 0 degrees. As is -50 and -50000.
Only if you believe in Absolute Zero. Only a Sith speaks in absolutes.
Bad Wigins wrote:
(Optional wrote:-5 degrees is the same as 0 degrees. As is -50 and -50000.
Only if you believe in Absolute Zero. Only a Sith speaks in absolutes.
INCORRECT!
I speak in absolutes...I mean...ummm...
nothing to see here...move along...
math is abstract. that is why most people doesn't understand.
how about infinitely dimensional vector spaces or functions that are discontinuous at every point on the unit interval
and yet their Lebesgue integral is well defined?
I don't know. I always thought it was the irrational numbers that made no sense.
that is why most people don't understand it:)
duh.
Perhaps. Negative is an operation. A descriptor about a statement of count. Perhaps numbers are nouns and operators, e.g. Sum, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponents verbs.
expert maths man wrote:
You cannot have anything below zero, it is illogical. Any maths that features negative numbers is WRONG
Have you never seen a mercury thermometer?
Poloik wrote:
expert maths man wrote:You cannot have anything below zero, it is illogical. Any maths that features negative numbers is WRONG
Have you never seen a mercury thermometer?
Yes, but I've never seen -1 mercury thermometers. In fact I've never seen a negative amount of anything. The least amount of things I've seen is 0 because you can't see less things than that.
Sleeping Policeman wrote:
It's true that in a directly observable physical sense there are no negative numbers.
Not really. Go watch a car stop at a stop sign. Observe the rate at which the car's speed changes as it approaches the sign. There, you've just observed a negative number.
expert maths man wrote:
You cannot have anything below zero, it is illogical. Any maths that features negative numbers is WRONG
Poloik wrote:
Have you never seen a mercury thermometer?
expert maths man wrote:
Yes, but I've never seen -1 mercury thermometers. In fact I've never seen a negative amount of anything. The least amount of things I've seen is 0 because you can't see less things than that.
That doesn't mean negative numbers don't make sense. Numbers are not used just to quantify "things".
The op is too simple minded to understand the concept. Stop wasting your time.
Did you know that the word 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary?
So, someone explain to me double negative? Cause when my uncle say, "no, you ain't should be boinking your cuz", just what is the godamn son bithc saying? am I restricted, or green light?
Um, ever heard of an additive inverse? y'all need to take some abstract algebra
I'm a mathmagician and I can confirm that everything in this thread is correct and nobody is fooling around.