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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus
It's just not right. . . It's crazy.
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Speak for yourself. I can calculate in any base you care to name. Our current system for representing numbers
* with numerals
* according to place values is flexible enough to accommodate this. Are the numerals customarily used to represent individual digits arbitrary? Of course. Duh.
What comes after 9þ?
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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus
Rather than present derivation of decimals and negative numbers, I'll leave those as exercises for the reader.
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No, I want to see you do decimals.
*Yes, there's a difference between numbers and numerals.
03-18-2008, 04:14 PM
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