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Originally Posted by PraedSt
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Originally Posted by Jeff Root
What mathematics do you think I would need to do? Here, I'll measure
the period of a pendulum... Just a moment... about 1-3/4 seconds for my
little Swiss Army knife hanging on a thread. What math do you think I
used to get that result?
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You've counted, and operated on, rational numbers. |
I have??? I don't remember counting anything. I don't remember
performing any operation. What do you think I counted? What
operation or operations do you think I performed?
Also: Does counting count as mathematics?
-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
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