Recent content by raoulh

From my understanding after reading the wikipedia article 0.1 is of magnitude -1 while 3.4 has an order of magnitude of 0. To work out the order of magnitude you can write the number in standard form, the power of ten when it is in standard form is the magnitude. An order of magnitude...

That reminds me of some definitions I found on a joke site: Clearly: I don't want to write down all the "in-between" steps. Trivial: If I have to show you how to do this, you're in the wrong class. It can easily be shown: No more than four hours are needed to prove it. Check for yourself...

OK, thanks for the explanation. I think the use of the word "simple" was too ambiguous though in the original post.

I can't follow this proof as I don't have a clue what (a,b)=1 means (I've just finished GCSEs and am about to do A levels if anyone familiar with the english school system wants to know what level I'm at). I've encountered and can easily understand the normal proof as it just relies upon basic...