JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for June 01, 2016
May 31, 2016
June 02, 2016
Transcript:
Ray: There is really nothing scary about math mojo! what about big numbers? My mother explained it to me like this: we all live on one planet so the biggest number is one. everything on the planet is therefore smaller than that. and you fell for it!
Olddog1 almost 8 years ago
You’re not “falling for it” if you can use it.
Dani Rice almost 8 years ago
Interesting way to look at things. Mum was a smart lady.
WaitingMan almost 8 years ago
But there exists an infinite amount of numbers between zero and one (between any two numbers, for that matter).
bookdoc123 almost 8 years ago
I’m confused… I know about the infinite numbers between zero and 1, as well as between 1 and 2, etc., but I still believe there are bigger numbers than 1 as well – an infinite number of them as a matter of fact. Or is this some kind of “new math”?
yangeldf almost 8 years ago
big numbers can be expressed as harmless little exponentials, it isn’t 10,000,000, it’s just 10^7