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Ray: There is really nothing scary about math mojo!
what about big numbers?
My mother explained it to me like this:
we all live on one planet so the biggest number is one.
everything on the planet is therefore smaller than that.
and you fell for it!
Olddog1 over 8 years ago
You’re not “falling for it” if you can use it.
Dani Rice over 8 years ago
Interesting way to look at things. Mum was a smart lady.
WaitingMan over 8 years ago
But there exists an infinite amount of numbers between zero and one (between any two numbers, for that matter).
bookdoc123 over 8 years ago
I’m confused… I know about the infinite numbers between zero and 1, as well as between 1 and 2, etc., but I still believe there are bigger numbers than 1 as well – an infinite number of them as a matter of fact. Or is this some kind of “new math”?
yangeldf over 8 years ago
big numbers can be expressed as harmless little exponentials, it isn’t 10,000,000, it’s just 10^7