On 04/03/10 16:46, Patrick Maupin wrote:
On Apr 3, 9:43 am, "Martin P. Hellwig"> IMHO, the crackpot in this
regard is actually partially right,
multiplication does mean that the number must get bigger, however for
fractions you multiply four numbers, two numerators and two
denominators. The resulting numerator and denominator by this
multiplication get indeed bigger.
That argument is great! Just make sure that you've managed to leave
before the class has to learn about irrational numbers that don't
*have* numerators and denominators ;-)
Yeah but those numbers have their own problems anyway, one of them being
that you are never sure how big/small they actually are, so by that
logic you could argue that if you can not give an exact measure for a
given number, bickering over it size after an operation is pretty
pointless (pun intended) :-)
Beside the only number that really matters is 42 ;-)
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