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Old 03-18-2008, 05:14 PM   #16
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What comes after þþ?

I'm speechless. Help me out here, what's 0.1? 0.01?

Why does the concept of zero bother you so much?
After þþ comes 111.

0.01 is still 0.01, and so on. We still need zero.

What, then, is 1.01? (think of 101/100 to get the correct answer)
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Old 03-18-2008, 05:21 PM   #17
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You don't start counting at zero because zero represents nothing. You start from nothing, and the first thing you count is 1, then if you have another thing, you have 2 etc. Zero is more than just a number. It's a state of mind.

Start from nothing to move on to something.
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Old 03-18-2008, 05:24 PM   #18
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Very zen.
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Old 03-18-2008, 06:21 PM   #19
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HLJ, it looks like all you're really doing is trying to count in base 11. Just replace þ with A.
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Old 03-18-2008, 06:29 PM   #20
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I'm not changing bases, just representation of digits. If I was using base 11, than 11 would be 12 and we'd still have a 10. Wouldn't we?
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Old 03-18-2008, 07:18 PM   #21
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Old 03-18-2008, 07:22 PM   #22
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Old 03-18-2008, 07:33 PM   #23
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you bastard! I lost my 10th digit on 9/11 at the WTC



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Old 03-18-2008, 07:53 PM   #24
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honestly HLJ I think you need a hobby
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Old 03-18-2008, 08:17 PM   #25
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0.01 is still 0.01, and so on. We still need zero.
Bullshit. You've gone to positively pathological lengths to get rid of zero on the left side of the decimal. Let's see some consistency.

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What, then, is 1.01? (think of 101/100 to get the correct answer)
You just said .01 is .01, so 1 plus .01 is 1.01. (Unless you're going to define the addition operation differently than usual.)
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Old 03-19-2008, 08:10 AM   #26
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First you try to get rid of Mondays, now you're booting the zero. What next, no oxygen?
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Old 03-19-2008, 09:41 AM   #27
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First you try to get rid of Mondays, now you're booting the zero. What next, no oxygen?
Well, the symbol is O, which look suspiciously like 0 . . . .
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Old 03-19-2008, 09:47 AM   #28
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Good point.

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Old 03-19-2008, 10:10 AM   #29
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Bullshit. You've gone to positively pathological lengths to get rid of zero on the left side of the decimal. Let's see some consistency.


You just said .01 is .01, so 1 plus .01 is 1.01. (Unless you're going to define the addition operation differently than usual.)
1.01 is 101/100. 101 becomes þ1, so 1.01 becomes 0.þ1

2.01 becomes 1.þ1, just as 201 becomes 1þ1

I'm not trying to get rid of zeros, they just drop out. I love zeros. But we could get rid of leading zeros by using exponential notation, if you like.



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honestly HLJ I think you need a hobby
Maybe implementing new decimal will be my hobby. This and the prime number thing. And getting rid of Mondays. And trying to make sense of tw.

Are any of these things possible? Probably not.
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Old 03-19-2008, 12:56 PM   #30
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1.01 is 101/100. 101 becomes þ1, so 1.01 becomes 0.þ1
So what is .101 then?
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