Yes this is silly but i want to see how your mind works have fun with it " be creative"
2006-09-22 15:11:46 · 13 answers · asked by illogicalbeats 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
well...everything is relative in Einstein's perception so...5+5 can be even 100 or why not -50?
2006-09-22 21:04:22 · answer #1 · answered by pink_0rkid 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Count backwards from 10. 10 9 8 7 6 +5 = 11
2006-09-22 22:49:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you're rounding up to the nearest number and a half with your two commodities of 5, then they're going to be 5.5 which when added together equals 11. Maybe that wouldn't be called 'rounding' though. But you get the notion.
Or maybe the answer had to be rounded to the nearest prime number.
Or maybe you're understand of the symbols '5' and '11' translate to what everyone else understands as '1' and '2'
Or maybe you live in a Bizarro dimension. Say hello to Bizarro Superman for me!
2006-09-22 22:28:07 · answer #3 · answered by Eyago 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5 + 5 is 11 if the term 11 is defined as what we now call 10, i mean what really is the 'term' 10 and the 'term' 11?
5+5 is 11 if we begin at 1 instead of 0, why is 0 always the beginning, must we always begin from nothing?
2006-09-22 22:25:35 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always go by the fact that I have 11 fingers. On my right hand I count from my pinky finger one, two, three, four, five. On my left I count from my pinky finger ten, nine, eight, seven, six, which astounds most children when I tell them that 5 plus 6 equals 11, and they understand that the 5 finders on each of my hands together equals 11, so therefore, 5 plus 5 equals 11!
2006-09-22 22:45:44 · answer #5 · answered by Island Berry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A counting system that would exclude 0's, there fore 4+6=11
or
5+5=11
2006-09-22 22:20:43 · answer #6 · answered by Arch Teryx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saul Kripke (prominent logician) touches on a similar problem in his work concerning Wittgenstein. He proposes something along the lines that + could actually be quus rather than plus. Then the sum of the math problem would undergo a drastic alteration. Check out Kripke's works at your nearest online book outlet.
2006-09-22 23:24:17 · answer #7 · answered by sokrates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5+5=11 because Big Brother says so. What ever Big Brother says must be true so 5+5=11. no matter what. otherwise i have no idea how any crackpot could answer this differentyl
2006-09-22 22:15:22 · answer #8 · answered by GloryDays49ers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well first it's not true, but if you insist, all theories conform to 1, so I'd say 5+5=1.
Truth is one without a second.
2006-09-23 03:19:33 · answer #9 · answered by Julian 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh that's any easy one. If this is the tenth day and on the twentieth day I get paid, I have to wait 11 days cause today is still a day.
2006-09-22 22:20:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋