Topic: General knowledge question
TheLonelyWalker's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:32 PM
All the languages that use the latin (I hope I'm not wrong) numerical system which is: 1, 2, 3,......, obviously has a concordance in the value of each number.
but what happens with other languages or cultures which use a different numerical system (or different kind of symbols for numbers), are their values of the numbers the same as ours?

TLW

James1234567's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:35 PM


I think so...drinker

James1234567's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:36 PM
you mean like chinese or arabic numbers?

TheLonelyWalker's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:38 PM

you mean like chinese or arabic numbers?

correct

willy_cents's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:41 PM
it would depend if their counting system was based on the digital method of 1 - 10 fingers as the standard. Myself, I use the toes too method, then I can get to twenty if I have my shoes off.huh

no photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:42 PM
Math is universal language. drinker

irad8you's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:42 PM
Gosh, if i had to guess, i would think no matter what the symbol looked like, i think it would be the same

James1234567's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:44 PM


I think your answer is yes... drinker drinker


TheLonelyWalker's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:46 PM
thank you for the help
I was just curious about that.

no photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:48 PM
Yes, the same.drinker

creativesoul's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:51 PM
Numbers hold no value outside of mathematics... huh

The modern world is built upon a faulty construct...

abra will strangle me soon enough... :wink:

wouldee's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:52 PM
0-9 are Arabic.

Latin is the Roman Numeral equivalent, i.e.I V X L C M.

flowerforyou :heart: bigsmile

willy_cents's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:53 PM

Math is universal language. drinker



it is only universal because it has been agreed to on our planet, and certain procedures and analysis have been codified. There is no type of analysis nor proof that 1 + 1 = 2, except that someone somewhere said so, and it has been accepted, or that 1 divided by zero is undefined, except that someone said so.

TheLonelyWalker's photo
Wed 04/09/08 06:53 PM

0-9 are Arabic.

Latin is the Roman Numeral equivalent, i.e.I V X L C M.

flowerforyou :heart: bigsmile

thank you. I think that i knew that, but somehow i forgot it.

jrbogie's photo
Thu 04/10/08 01:48 AM
Math is universal. Regardless of the pronunciation or how it is written in a language, any given number has the same value in all.

jrbogie's photo
Thu 04/10/08 01:55 AM
it is only universal because it has been agreed to on our planet, and certain procedures and analysis have been codified. There is no type of analysis nor proof that 1 + 1 = 2, except that someone somewhere said so, and it has been accepted, or that 1 divided by zero is undefined, except that someone said so.


A categorically incorrect statement. 1+1 has been proven to equal two. And and one divided by zero IS defined. The result is zero.

Milesoftheusa's photo
Thu 04/10/08 07:17 AM
Hebrew is 23 letters i believe. eash number means way more than a number. Ps. 119 has all the numbers laid out to the different thought about it. you will see the heading of each number spelled out in a english word through out it. Milesdrinker

Milesoftheusa's photo
Thu 04/10/08 07:21 AM
example it starts with # 1

Ps 119:1-2

a ALEPH

Blessed are the undefiled in the way,
Who walk in the law of the Lord!
2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies,
NKJV


The last # of psalms


Ps 119:169-171

169 w TAU

Let my cry come before You, O Lord;
Give me understanding according to Your word.
170 Let my supplication come before You;
Deliver me according to Your word.
171 My lips shall utter praise,
NKJV