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jbriggs444 reacted to Ibix's post in the thread Undergrad How does reciprocal time dilation work? with
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@A.T. gives the answer. In short, if the two clocks are in the same place (even if they are only passing by) then you will both agree... -
jbriggs444 reacted to PeroK's post in the thread Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers with Like.
One can postulate that nature can do real numbers and base their existence and divisibility from that. However, most real numbers are...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers.Indeed. We teach elementary school students using integer ratios and decimal fractions. As a pure mathematician, I tend to shy away from...
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jbriggs444 reacted to Roberto Pavani's post in the thread Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers with Like.
As a humble engineer, I think there's both a counting bias and a decimal bias here. We are taught to think of numbers mainly as counts...
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jbriggs444 reacted to FactChecker's post in the thread Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers with Like.
You can approximate it with a sequence of integer divisions. Long division by hand does that -- never going over and keeping track of...
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jbriggs444 replied to the thread Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers.Are you comfortable with long division using pencil and paper? My generation was taught how to do this. There is no problem in...
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Exactly. So you want "multiply by no ##a##s" to be "multiply by 1".