2006-07-10 02:40:17 · 10 answers · asked by mariahere2 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Apples and Oranges! Your trying to express an equation in arithmetic but are wondering why it wont translate into composition of numbers. (how many times will this be posted?) One next to One is eleven and equals eleven it's the plus sign the makes all the difference. What you should be asking is how they got 3 R's out of Reading, writing and arithmetic?
2006-07-10 02:54:38 · answer #1 · answered by mistress_lilas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, for computers, 1 + 1 would equal 10, not 11.
They say there are only 10 types of people in this world: those who can read binary, and those who can't.
But seriously. 1+1 can't be 11. Granted if you just stuck them next to each other together, they'd look like it. And that's why we need the "+" sign in between them, to indicate that they're being joined together. But when we do go ahead and join them, we need a second symbol to represent both of them together. If you only used one symbol to count with, 11 would mean two, yes, but it's more efficient when you're working with larger numbers, as in the real world you often have to, to use more symbols, to reduce the written size of numbers. If you only used collections of "1"'s to represent different quantities, you'd use up a crazy amount of paper or eventually, even hard disk space. Hope this was helpful.
2006-07-10 05:15:40 · answer #2 · answered by Beelzebozo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You see, because we're operating in an arithmetic with positional notation and a base larger than two, we need a separate symbol for two. If we weren't using positional notation, 1+1=11 would make perfect sense. However, under our system 11 equals 1 times ten plus 1 - which is not two, it's eleven. Because we can't simply concatenate the digits to add them, we need the extra symbols.
2006-07-10 02:48:05 · answer #3 · answered by peri_renna 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there were only one digit in our numerical system, 1+1 would in fact be 11 (which would mean two). But our system has ten digits (0 through 9), which can be combined in an infinite number of ways to represent any number we can conceive of. The right-most digit is in the "ones place," and represents the number of "units of one" being referred to. The digit to the left of that is in the "tens place," and represents the number of units of ten. The digit to the left of that is in the "hundreds place," etc. Thus, the number 11 represents (1 times ten) plus (1 times one), which equals ten plus one, or eleven. And there you are.
2006-07-10 07:21:46 · answer #4 · answered by Keither 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 plus 1 is 2 because it makes more sense b/c 1 apple plus 1 apple gets you 2 apples.
2006-07-10 02:44:16 · answer #5 · answered by Justinfire 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you should draw a picture to help you with that. A better question is..."Does one plus one equal 2...or 1?". You'd be surprised.
2006-07-10 05:52:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no do not think like that the result had been abd will be 2 for all the time
2006-07-10 02:44:10 · answer #7 · answered by star 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
come on it is not that difficult, just do it using ur fingers, u will surely get 2. coz thats the way it is.there is a law for it!
2006-07-10 02:46:31 · answer #8 · answered by ---->>มาร์ญาม<<----! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do it with your fingers if that will help you any, if you do come up with 11 fingers call ripley
2006-07-10 02:42:59 · answer #9 · answered by jegreencreek 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For computers this is true.
2006-07-10 02:44:17 · answer #10 · answered by Hi y´all ! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋