Quote:
"At the same time young Buddha was learning many of the truths that would become Buddhism, the Pythagoreans were studying the universe through numbers."
How can you understand nature and its occurences with a method that was man-made??
I find it ironic how humans invented numbers and its number system, and they want to use that to study something so 'real' in a way. I don't really know how to explain it. Like... scientists use telescopes to see the universe and better understand it that way. Some scientists that want to know more about their environment go camping and get closer to what they're studying. Studying the universe through numbers seem outrageous to me... Well maybe not outrageous, but it doesn't sound very intelligent. It sounds like you'd run into a lot of walls of mystery.. Like... I don't know how to really explain what I'm trying to say, but yeah. I don't even like the number one. 3 is a better number. Fareal. :)
Friday, February 11, 2011
QQC 0.000001 reading
Question:
When dividing, when they came to the part where they needed a decimal, did they just stop (since they didn't use decimals at the time)??
Quote:
"Although this is very close to the idea of adding a decimal point and writing fractions as decimal fractions, it took nearly a thousand years before a Syrian mathematician figured it out."
Comment:
Where's all Leibniz, Einstein, and all of them. Did they just stop, or give up. So they made the foundations of math, and then people from other countries made it simpler and everything. Hmm. Okay. And the wooden Abacus tool looks so complicated. I think I had one of those when I was younger. I didn't know it was actually for math. I was playing with it the wrong way, but thats cool.
When dividing, when they came to the part where they needed a decimal, did they just stop (since they didn't use decimals at the time)??
Quote:
"Although this is very close to the idea of adding a decimal point and writing fractions as decimal fractions, it took nearly a thousand years before a Syrian mathematician figured it out."
Comment:
Where's all Leibniz, Einstein, and all of them. Did they just stop, or give up. So they made the foundations of math, and then people from other countries made it simpler and everything. Hmm. Okay. And the wooden Abacus tool looks so complicated. I think I had one of those when I was younger. I didn't know it was actually for math. I was playing with it the wrong way, but thats cool.
Friday, February 4, 2011
QQC all.about.numbers.
Quote:
"In many tribes around the world, where people counted mainly using their fingers (and sometimes all kinds of other body parts), the words they used for the numbers they wanted to express were mainly to do with the use fo fingers and hands."
Questions:
Did the evolution of numbers start with the growth of population and need for more things?
Comments:
I never really looked at how numbers came about. Back then, in the old beginners day, it would be annoying to not know how much of something you had. It would be easy to steal small things that were by quantity because no one would have a proper wqay of accounting for all they had. How did they consider someone rich or poor, if they couldn't count. They didnt know how much someone had of anything. The use of rocks and sticks for counting how many people cae back in a war was smart, to an extent. Like... what if one of the rocks broke? So now you have more rocks than you people, so you would think that someone died because I doubt they accounted for the exact rock they put down. Crazy though. Numbers really are an iportant thing in everyday life, and we use them everywhere. We count everything, even when we don't know we do. Like now thinking back on it, I count everything all the time. To measure and account for things... So yeqh. But not having a specific number code for everything would make life easier. Especially when you wanna know your bank statement or need to pay a billl, how would you represent such large numbers? Hmmm. Makes me think...
"In many tribes around the world, where people counted mainly using their fingers (and sometimes all kinds of other body parts), the words they used for the numbers they wanted to express were mainly to do with the use fo fingers and hands."
Questions:
Did the evolution of numbers start with the growth of population and need for more things?
Comments:
I never really looked at how numbers came about. Back then, in the old beginners day, it would be annoying to not know how much of something you had. It would be easy to steal small things that were by quantity because no one would have a proper wqay of accounting for all they had. How did they consider someone rich or poor, if they couldn't count. They didnt know how much someone had of anything. The use of rocks and sticks for counting how many people cae back in a war was smart, to an extent. Like... what if one of the rocks broke? So now you have more rocks than you people, so you would think that someone died because I doubt they accounted for the exact rock they put down. Crazy though. Numbers really are an iportant thing in everyday life, and we use them everywhere. We count everything, even when we don't know we do. Like now thinking back on it, I count everything all the time. To measure and account for things... So yeqh. But not having a specific number code for everything would make life easier. Especially when you wanna know your bank statement or need to pay a billl, how would you represent such large numbers? Hmmm. Makes me think...
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