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     CommentAuthorMATT
   • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010

    
   I guess a simple conceptual systems that works because its own rules force it to could be beautiful to some people.
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     CommentAuthorPoemOf4Letters
   • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010

    
   Well I think math is kinda the base of all concepts, but I appreciate them much more when you attach some emotion and subjective-ness to them instead of just heartless numbers.She shows no emotion at all, stares into space like a dead China doll. - Elliott Smith
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     CommentAuthordemented cookies
   • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010

    
   I asked one of the math tutors, who is working for his doctorate (I think) in math, what happens when you divide by zero. He said something like, "division is another way of saying 'how many of this number goes into this number,' so you can't really divide by zero. If you divide by numbers close to zero, you get higher numbers. For example, 5 / 1/2 is 10, 5 / 1/100 is 500, 5 / 1/1000 is 5000." He said some more stuff too about dividing by zero and the message I got was that the number of zeros that go into any number is infinite, since zero is nothing. I'm explaining it badly, since I asked this morning and I pretty much forgot.
   
   But, otherwise, I hate math so much, at least in school. I'll do math on my own, like finding the average amount of time it's taken me to read a novel over the past year, and the year before that, then find out the average for every month within the year, and making a graph to illustrate my average over the years (yes, I have no life). But in school it's tedious and (at the moment, though I know it won't be in the future) completely pointless."I don't intend to achieve immortality through my work. I intend to achieve it through not dying." -Woody Allen
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     CommentAuthorJeeves
   • CommentTimeFeb 25th 2010

    
   I don't like math when it's abstract (like logarithms, and stuff like that) but when it's simple algebra or constructions or any other geometry stuff it's fun.
   
   plus, math keeps ya sharp.meow
5. • CommentAuthorEVLWNS
   • CommentTimeFeb 26th 2010

    

   Posted By: demented cookiesHe said something like, "division is another way of saying 'how many of this number goes into this number,' so you can't really divide by zero. If you divide by numbers close to zero, you get higher numbers. For example, 5 / 1/2 is 10, 5 / 1/100 is 500, 5 / 1/1000 is 5000." He said some more stuff too about dividing by zero and the message I got was that the number of zeros that go into any number is infinite, since zero is nothing. I'm explaining it badly, since I asked this morning and I pretty much forgot.

   
   
   Ha ha! That sounds like my proof (in an ameteurish kind of way) might be correct!"When I am, Death is not; and when Death is, I am not. Then why fear what I cannot be?"
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     CommentAuthorTheAtheistGod
   • CommentTimeMar 5th 2010

    

   Posted By: EVLWNS

   Posted By: demented cookiesHe said something like, "division is another way of saying 'how many of this number goes into this number,' so you can't really divide by zero. If you divide by numbers close to zero, you get higher numbers. For example, 5 / 1/2 is 10, 5 / 1/100 is 500, 5 / 1/1000 is 5000." He said some more stuff too about dividing by zero and the message I got was that the number of zeros that go into any number is infinite, since zero is nothing. I'm explaining it badly, since I asked this morning and I pretty much forgot.

   
   
   Ha ha! That sounds like my proof (in an ameteurish kind of way) might be correct!

   
   
   P.h.D's are not always right.
   
   And by the way, I hear no counter examples to my claim.
   
   My argument still stands. I had counters examples to your proof. So no, it's not a valid proof. damn. when will you people get it?
   
   I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, I'm saying it's not a proof and it is notationally flawed (that is, a/0 = infinity).There is no morality when one's motives are driven by reward and punishment.
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     CommentAuthorMATT
   • CommentTimeMar 7th 2010

    
   Tag, you're jibbering about counter examples and stuff is confusing me.
   Before you said something like dividing by zeroes creates comtradictions, can you explain that to me again? I'm kinda thick when it comes to this stuff.
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     CommentAuthorTheAtheistGod
   • CommentTimeMar 9th 2010

    
   <blockquote><cite>Posted By: MATT</cite>Tag, you're jibbering about counter examples and stuff is confusing me.
   Before you said something like dividing by zeroes creates comtradictions, can you explain that to me again? I'm kinda thick when it comes to this stuff.<span class="CommentSignature">I've had dinner with the Devil, and I know nice from right.</span></blockquote>
   
   um...haven't I explained it clearly enough already? Just go back and read all my comments again. LOL.There is no morality when one's motives are driven by reward and punishment.
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     CommentAuthorJeeves
   • CommentTimeMar 9th 2010

    
   html pleezmeow
10. •  
      CommentAuthorMATT
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2010

     

    Posted By: TheAtheistGod

    Posted By: MATTTag, you're jibbering about counter examples and stuff is confusing me.
    Before you said something like dividing by zeroes creates comtradictions, can you explain that to me again? I'm kinda thick when it comes to this stuff.I've had dinner with the Devil, and I know nice from right.

    
    
    um...haven't I explained it clearly enough already? Just go back and read all my comments again. LOL.There is no morality when one's motives are driven by reward and punishment.

    
    
    puh
11. •  
      CommentAuthorProletariatTreeHuger
    • CommentTimeMar 10th 2010

     
    Wow I didn't know people still used puh. That went out of style when my mother was in high school.
    do you also wear bell bottoms and a tie die t-shirt, Matt?
12. •  
      CommentAuthorMATT
    • CommentTimeMar 10th 2010 edited

     
    Yes. But that was just my lazy 2am way of trying to express dismay. I don't even remember what I took issue with.
    
    YOU'RE USING A ROBO WITH ILLEGAL PARTS! RUHIEL ISN'T REGULATION, AND WTF IS WITH THE WOLF SPIDER POD?! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, YOU ARE A DIGRACE TO THE CUSTOM ROBO LEGACY.

    I concur: Stevo
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      CommentAuthorStevo
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010

     
    if i was a ninja, i would hi five with the amount of win you just expressed.

    I concur: Jeeves

    Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.