2007-03-24 09:52:54 · 9 answers · asked by virgosarah22 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
why 2? who came up with 2? why the sequence of 1, 2,3 .... why not 2, 5,1... or sumthing else?
2007-03-24 10:09:22 · update #1
Why not? Anything is possible. Pax - C.
2007-03-24 10:00:06 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because 2-1=1
2007-03-24 16:56:49 · answer #2 · answered by jus2rood 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that's what 2 was invented for.
If you want to symbolize numbers, you need a symbol for 'one thing', 1, and then another symbol for 'one thing and another one' - and in Arabic numerals, that symbol 2 was chosen for that. They, could, in theory, just as easily have picked 3, or 7, or Q, or a little picture of a palm tree - but they didn't. The picked '2' as the symbol for '1 + 1', and therefore 1+1=2. :)
2007-03-24 17:12:59 · answer #3 · answered by Ms. S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the binary system, 1+1 = 10.
2007-03-24 18:49:35 · answer #4 · answered by empress 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz first someone invented that that was the sequence, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 then they saw that the first number (known as 1) and that "1" again created 2 "objects" so u can say that 1+1=2 .
a object and another one create two of those objects.
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2007-03-24 17:55:39 · answer #5 · answered by tania v 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is because 2 is defined as 1+1. :)
2007-03-24 17:00:40 · answer #6 · answered by qbox 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because if you taake two objects then add one with another it equals 2
2007-03-24 16:56:43 · answer #7 · answered by dance_queen345 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Say you have one orange and bob gives you another orange you have two oranges.
2007-03-24 16:59:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
cuz
2007-03-24 17:04:25 · answer #9 · answered by noskillzorz 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋