How does the value of numbers change over time?

Question

In an explanation of the exponential constant and how it alone never changed Rod Mac said "the number 7, for example, was valued at 7.00132 in 1923, and by the year 2213, it will have fallen to 6.89917". Why would this happen?

Answer 1

It's to do with the nature of the number "e"

Differentiate y = e(to the power)x and you get y' = e(to the power)x

This is unique to "e".......at all points the gradient is equal to the value of the function at that point. For all other numbers things change........

However...7*exact will always be 7*exact! Just like 1 is unitary

Answer 2

To begin with, what is a number? Its only something arbitrary devised by man to suit his purposes and they are one of the first steps towards civilisation. Numbers therefore changes in the same way as man changes.

Answer 3

Numbers don't change but physical constants in physics do!! If you are doing physics, you will find lots of physical constants invented in 15th, 16th and 17th centuries have changed because of modern technology and better ways to measure them!!

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Ask Gordon Brown he's been fiddling the figures for years.

Answer 5

Numbers will not change. They have not changed in the last 1000 years.

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Answer 6

Inflation. Seven is just not worth what it used to be.

Answer 7

If it does, I have a bridge to sell you. How many fingers do you have? 10.736?

Answer 8

You have gone mad

Answer 9

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3553.txt
Next theyll be saying Pi is equal to exactly 3
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