>>12 (even tho I know you're just trying to be funny)
Yes, but from the basic logical term point of view, an apple is an apple, no need for such strict criteria
It is an observation that works and has never been wrong, so the proof lies in empiral evidence. It must be true because if you have one apple in a bag and you add another, there are two apples in the bag.
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Anonymous2006-05-26 19:02
>>22
not if youre around david motherfucking blaine
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Anonymous2006-05-30 15:47
What if you have two unequal apple slices in a bag? Do you have two slices regardless of size, or do you measure them? If you measure them, and it matters what size they are, then how can one whole apple be equal to another whole apple of a different size?
You're not measuring volume of the slices or how much apple they are. You are ONLY counting the quantities of APPLE SLICES with NO regard to anything else.
I have one dog in a bag, and I put another dog in the same bag, then I have two dogs in that bag. I don't care if one is the size of a horse and the other one a chihuaha, I have TWO DOGS.
Yet the pieces are not equal. The whole point of numbers is to establish equal measurements in relation to each other. If one slice is 3/7 of an apple, and one slice is 1/2 of an apple, then by your definition both are equal.
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Anonymous2006-06-02 12:08 (sage)
Yet the pieces are not equal.
All that matters is that they belong to the same category of things. Categories can be established completely arbitrarily.
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Anonymous2006-06-02 14:31
Well, if you are trying to find something that is absolutely the same as another thing, that is strictly impossible. Any object with identical mass to another object are not the same. They both contain there own atoms, they both exist in two different spaces. No single object is the same even to itself, for after each smallest increment of time (I think thats called plank second), the object existed in different time increments, so nothing is really same.
>>32
No one proved to me that 1+1 equals 2 in kindergarten, I was just presented with it as a fact. Now I have grown up and I kill niggers every day and go to 4chan because of that.
Please provide proof.
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Anonymous2006-06-02 22:22
For all X and Y except 0 or a negative number, X = Y
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Anonymous2006-06-03 0:06
Two things in a bag.
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Anonymous2006-06-03 0:19
>>Yet the pieces are not equal. The whole point of numbers is to establish equal measurements in relation to each other. If one slice is 3/7 of an apple, and one slice is 1/2 of an apple, then by your definition both are equal.
No, again, I'm NOT trying to figure out how much of an apple I have. I'm trying to figure out how many APPLE SLICES I have.
1 slice + 1 slice = 2 slices
Now if we WERE trying to figure out how much of an apple these slices would make, then we would include the new information we wish to take into account.
ie.
3/7 apple + 1/2 apple = 0.92857142857142857142857142857143 apple
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Anonymous2006-06-03 21:54
I thought the OP /r/ a proof that 1+1=2? If you start a mathematical proof with "imagine you have one apple on a table" then you fail so fucking hard. Do apples have anything to do with numbers? No.
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Anonymous2006-06-03 22:30
>>37 If we're talking about counting, nothing wrong with using an example like that (not for a proof but for an analogy to a proof).
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Anonymous2006-06-04 12:29
>>37
empirical evidence, motherfucker, do you use it?
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Anonymous2006-06-04 13:31
1 = 1 for all real numbers. All numbers = 1.
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Anonymous2006-06-04 18:19
x = x for all real numbers. All real numbers can = x