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What's the point of negative numbers?

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 22:18:36 2021 No.12698966 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12699148 >>12700416 >>12700542 >>12700553 >>12701754 >>12703129

They are just not applicable the real objects. Why do they even exist?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2021 22:20:16 No.12698974 Report

Quoted By: >>12698990 >>12701238

Prove a-b+c = c-b+a without reinventing the negative numbers.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2021 22:20:55 No.12698980 Report

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Fractions. 1/x^n = x^(-n). This is important for exponential decay.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2021 22:22:01 No.12698990 Report

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>>12698974
Assume 0 is the lowest number possible. Then if (a+c) > b, then (a -b + c) = 0.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Feb 2021 23:01:57 No.12699148 Report

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>>12698966
>They are just not applicable to real objects

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Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 06:35:50 No.12700411 Report

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Describe your IQ without negative numbers
can't do that
Q.E.D

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 06:37:43 No.12700416 Report

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>>12698966
>They are just not applicable the real objects
Your student debt is not gonna disappear just because you keep saying that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 07:33:40 No.12700542 Report

Quoted By: >>12701230 >>12701810

>>12698966
>Why do they even exist?
They shouldn't. That's is why we of the ONE TRUE FINITE FAITH will wage an unrelenting HOLY WAR against these...these... THESE ABOMINATIONS UNTO GOD!

Just as soon as we have destroyed infinity and infinitesimals. And retaken Constantinople. PRAISE THE HOLY BURGER!

Amen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 07:36:49 No.12700553 Report

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>>12698966
>>12698990
yeah...lets just pretend this thread never happened

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 13:13:42 No.12701230 Report

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>>12700542
Negative numbers are fine. Does your computer understand negative numbers? Yes? Good, then move on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 13:17:09 No.12701238 Report

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>>12698974
why would I even need to prove that in the first place
you're purposefully creating a situation where negatives are necessary, we don't actually need them

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 17:41:39 No.12701750 Report

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>>12701238
I need negatives to describe my net worth. "Oh yeah but you purposefully created your situation" yeah fuck u

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 17:43:07 No.12701754 Report

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>>12698966
to describe debt

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Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 18:03:28 No.12701810 Report

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>>12700542
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number
*blocks your path*

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 18:10:14 No.12701835 Report

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>>12698990
Is this bait? Surely no sane individual could write this

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 23:20:14 No.12703067 Report

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Don't electrons have negative charges?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 23:30:16 No.12703111 Report

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>>12701810
>.m
>mobile filename
kys

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 23:36:19 No.12703129 Report

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>>12698966
They're applicable to my debt

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Feb 2021 03:01:37 No.12703631 Report

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>>12703111
Phone posters shall inherit the Earth

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