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Originally posted by Neb:
Unless I was using a different system than you? [img]tongue.gif[/img] There ARE numerical systems where 2+2 would not equal 4. Damn, this is one of those rare occasions where I know the words in Danish but not in English....
Like.... In "our" system 5+5=10 But in another 8+8=10 might be true.... So in a system where 2+2=10, 2+2=4 cannot be true [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Ah but Neb, 2+2 always equals 4 in our language, and it still equals 4 in that system it's just that their number that represents IIII is called and pronounced "ten."
It still equals the same value, that's like saying it doesn't equal the same in a different language, just because it's a different word for it.
If you told them to pint out the amount of marks the sum of the figures represents it would still have the same value, which in
our system equals 4.
[ 05-15-2002, 03:52 PM: Message edited by: Talthyr Malkaviel ]
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