What Number is Bigger?
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you bring up an interesting point.. but the only thing I see is that 1/3 + 2/3 doesnt actually equal 1. If 1/3 is .3R and 2/3 is .6R then adding them doesn't equal zero (so it seems). You gotta ask yourself, what's more accurate, decimals or fractions. Many people would say fractions, but when some fractions are broken down, the number they are broken down to cannot be expressed in written form because the number never ends.. So that tells me that in some instances, it would be a better idea to add fractions together rather than decimals.. cuz somewhere in the fraction to decimal conversion process, information is slightly altered.
good thread though.
good thread though.
thats the best explanation..
we USE math in our lives and in our reality(buildings, explanations, what-not), but definitely, numbers themselves do not have to abide by the same logic that we use...well most of us use.
this is why i fell in love with math in the first place; as students in school we learn the number line, and we learn there is 1,2,3,4,5,6...and so on, but then we learn that 1<2<3<4<5... and then we learn the there are intermediate numbers, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3....and then we learn that there are an infinite amount of numbers, so therefore, there must be an infinite amount of numbers inbetween each "set" number that we previously learned(the simple number line), so if each number is its own step, but then there is an infinite amount of steps, then what makes these steps?
Now this goes along with 0 or infinity, are they different or the same?
Is the presence of all numbers the same concept as the void of all numbers?
Edit:
aaaaalllsoooo, i wanted to add that this basic concept goes along with my concept of time, is everything ever-present(i dunno if you'd connect that) and is our perception of 'chronological events' just an illusion like the number line is?
we USE math in our lives and in our reality(buildings, explanations, what-not), but definitely, numbers themselves do not have to abide by the same logic that we use...well most of us use.
this is why i fell in love with math in the first place; as students in school we learn the number line, and we learn there is 1,2,3,4,5,6...and so on, but then we learn that 1<2<3<4<5... and then we learn the there are intermediate numbers, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3....and then we learn that there are an infinite amount of numbers, so therefore, there must be an infinite amount of numbers inbetween each "set" number that we previously learned(the simple number line), so if each number is its own step, but then there is an infinite amount of steps, then what makes these steps?
Now this goes along with 0 or infinity, are they different or the same?
Is the presence of all numbers the same concept as the void of all numbers?
Edit:
aaaaalllsoooo, i wanted to add that this basic concept goes along with my concept of time, is everything ever-present(i dunno if you'd connect that) and is our perception of 'chronological events' just an illusion like the number line is?
