Re: Numbers and math
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 22, 2000, 3:01 |
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On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:33:05PM -0700, Marcus Smith wrote:
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> Who ever heard of a negative number? That just means you have a positive
> number in the other direction. You don't have -2 bowls, you owe others 2
> bowls.
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I know this is meant as a joke, but HEY, this is a REVOLUTIONARY idea!!
Negative numbers are just numbers in the other direction. So why limit it
to only two directions? You can have arbitrarily many directions between
these two. So now you have the integral complex numbers!!! This will be
SUCH a cool idea... a culture that doesn't understand negative numbers but
understands complex numbers! :-)
T