[olug] Number systems (was Drill Press)

[Aric Aasgaard]

:)
That's the diesel of math.

I guess it is pointless to argue what base a number system is.  Odd are
still odd, primes are still prime and we have computers to convert them.

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From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
charles.bird at powerdnn.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:29 PM
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Subject: Re: [olug] Number systems (was Drill Press)

It depends on how much coffee u have


-----Original Message-----
From: "Aric Aasgaard" <aric at omahax.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:06:26 
To: 'Omaha Linux User Group'<olug at olug.org>
Subject: Re: [olug] Number systems (was Drill Press)

One dot is one dimension, 2 dots is a line thus 2 dimensions. It takes 2 to
measure.  
Speed is point A to point B / the time dimension. Right.  According to
Einstein, isn't time just the constant of the speed of light as the universe
expands, time dilation the changing of the relative distance, and gravity
that of changing the relative speed to a reference point.  IDK.

Since most math is ratio or relative to another point it makes more since to
me to use numbers that that easily half, quarter, double without
representing them as fractions. 

2 implies a knowledge of 1.

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From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Ed
Pluta
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [olug] Number systems (was Drill Press)

---- Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote: 
> Someone wrote:
> >You can't think of 1 as multi dimensional thing.  If 1 is a
> > value as distance from the origin it should be circular in 2 dimensions
not
> > a square.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 15:23, Ed Pluta <epluta3 at cox.net> wrote:
> > Kinda confused here. Are you making the case that one is a
non-dimensional
> > thing or that it is dimensionless unless it is used as a measure of
distance or change?
> 
> The only common "1D" measurement I can come up with is "Time".  You
> have forward and back (i.e. tomorrow, or 2 hours ago)...
> 
> Dan
> 
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According to Einstein, Time can be affected by gravity and is actually
another dimension of the physical universe.

Time cannot be one dimensional. It would assume it is not moving, or your
perspective of the object being observed is not changing; it's a relative
thing. Time is actually a measurement, or difference, from some origin.
Using your example, tomorrow is a change in the variable T on a graph. The
value of the change is 1 day. Not sure what the other axis is (I think it's
space, which gives it 4 dimensions) but one variable is moving, thus you
have at least a line, and a multi-dimensional equation. In other words try
to graph a change in time using just one dot. It can't be done.
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