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Maths. Adding and subtracting. Multiplication. Division. Factors. Equations. It's all quite beautiful, if you're that way inclined.

In the US, Maths is called Math. It is singular. Here in Britain we have many forms of Maths. Across the Atlantic they only have one. I don't know what that says about the disparity between our cultures. It probably says very little, but then again, I'm not a linguist.

Everything nowadays runs on binary. That's just zeroes and ones. Two digits that rule the world.

001100000 0000110000 01100000110 0111111110
001100000 0001111000 01100000110 0110000000
001100000 0011001100 00110001100 0111111110
001100000 0011001100 00110001100 0110000000
001111110 0001111000 00011011000 0110000000
001111110 0000110000 00001110000 0111111110

Yes, Maths is probably the answer to all of life's problems. Man turned to science because he was sick of the ambiguity of art. Art can be anything. That's the whole point of it, apparently. Think of the sleek beauty of binary....everything is either a zero or a one...no shades of grey, no awkward decimals or possibilities. It is beautiful because it is true. I think an artist of some kind once said truth was beauty. He was wrong, but it was a lovely idea. He probably lived before calculators we invented, so we can forgive his human errors.

Think of the ridiculous forms that man has invented in the pursuit of art: ice-dance, mime, synchronised swimming, the saxophone... and so many more. Why? Is it really so vital that we express ourselves. I think the world would probably be a better place with less self-expression. I know this is anathema to western culture, where we're supposed to encourage children to make self-portraits out of clay and tell autistic wrecks that the inky blobs they have drawn is art, but perhaps the world would be a better place with more self-repression.

Remember: Hitler was an amateur artist, not a weekend mathematician.

It would be lovely to think that there was a formula or equation underpinning our existence; that we could guarantee happiness by following a set pattern; that all our spiritual and moral ambiguities could be annihilated with a giant calculator.

Imagine Moses on the top of Mount Sinai, speaking in his booming voice to the Children of Israel. Rather than holding two tablets of stone he clutches in his hands two large CASIO calculators. On both of them is a number of wondrous holy significance.

Sadly, in his hurry to hand the words (or numbers) of God to mankind, Moses is carrying the calculators upside down and the number appears as a word: BOOBIES.

That is where mankind goes wrong. If only we had chosen numbers instead of words. It's numbers that you can count on. Words just take us to the ends of sentences.

2006-11-29 04:46:49 · 4 answers · asked by rabbit0102030 3 in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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most people i know are too stupid for numbers...

but i agree with everything else...ure dead on

as long as humans arent intelligent enough for what uve proposed(even you arent), i think we can better everything we have towards perfection...u know...for all practical purposes

2006-11-29 04:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by Spiderpig 3 · 0 0

Hey Rabbit,

Math in the United States is divided into distinct sub-sections. The class in elementary is called math, but each chapter covers the different categories. Jr. High, I took Algebra, and Geometry, Trig in High School, and binary - in Computer classes.

I enjoyed your humor, and don't really find a question here. I do believe that Math is the Key. Trouble is we don't really know what the Key looks like and what it fits.

I like to say that in the end, Everything = Nothing, which came from the Big Bang being Nothing which became Everything. But don't ask me to prove it. You posted in Philosophy.

2006-11-29 05:11:18 · answer #2 · answered by BuyTheSeaProperty 7 · 0 0

Math isn't the panacea to all ailments, no be counted if social, actual, psychological, etc. some issues only can't be quantited. Take love, as an occasion. how are you able to quantify love? Are you going to create a 10-factor Likert scale and value how plenty you love human beings in this scale? "Oh, I provide my toddlers a 10 and my significant different a 9,...". it is utter nonsense. additionally, math(s) may well be "fudged". think of Einstein and the Cosmological consistent. He made a colossal "booboo" using this in his concept of well-known Relativity to make the universe look as a static universe, whilst Hubble confirmed that it is not static, yet increasing. apart from, some issues that exist can in basic terms be defined by using way of possibilities. you may no longer understand the precisely area of an electron interior of an atom, in basic terms possibilities as to the place it would desire to be. Having a 70% probability that it is going to likely be in a undeniable area, would not recommend that's would be inevitably there. only extra in all probability than being interior the 30% probability area. using possibilities nevertheless leaves ambiguity. Ergo, ditching words and using math(s) would not relatively make an progression.

2016-10-13 08:48:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I like your story. Yet i think it would have been nearly impossible to have conveyed to others the definition of each numeric symbol or equasion.i.e. how would two people agree 5 + 5=10 if they could not discuss the value of each symbol.Sure, the reality of the situation didn't change, x+x=y, But that is all we would have.

2006-11-29 05:07:09 · answer #4 · answered by cementshroom13 2 · 0 0

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