wrightme
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Yet, adding 1 and 1 in base 2 still equals an amount equivalent to the decimal number "2". It is just notated as "10" So, really, 1 plus(added) 1 still does equal '2'.
The only way 1+1=3, regardless of the base, is for large values of 1.
1.0 + 1.0 = 2, always. There is no different way of adding or some bs like that.
Case in point.There are those propositions which are generally and widely accepted as being true, but given time they may be disproven. Or perhaps they, like Einstein's "Theory of Relativity", are accepted as truth only because they cannot (yet) be disproven.
As for your 1+1 example... 1+1 does not always equal 2. What most people assume to be self-evident rules of arithmetic -- valid at all times and for all purposes -- actually depend on what we define a number to be. In Boolean algebra 1+1=0 (carry the 1). Our only reference for the measurement or "truth" of anything in the universe is the value which we assign to it. A "statute mile" consists of 5,280 feet only because that is the value we have given to it. The freezing point of fresh water at sea level is 32ºF/0ºC - only because Daniel Fahrenheit gave it that value in the early-18th century, and we accept it as such. There is no universality in measurement.
Don't Bogart that doobie! Pax...
Regardless, there is no "2" in Boolean Algebra, just ones and zeros. Therefore the result of any string of Boolean numbers must be either one or zero by default. Pax...
In Boolean algebra 1+1=0 (carry the 1).
How about United Earth? or the Federation? Those worked well in the books, movies, and shows of star trek.<snip>
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Damn the Cardassians and the Federation...Tell that to the Maquis.
How did this thread go from talk about "Restoring the Republic" to complex mathematical theories?!
How did this thread go from talk about "Restoring the Republic" to complex mathematical theories?!
Regardless, there is no "2" in Boolean Algebra, just ones and zeros. Therefore the result of any string of Boolean numbers must be either one or zero by default. Pax...
Math is not the universal truth, but it is a tool that allows us to perceive truth.
Thank you for finally recognizing my point, which really had nothing to do with math, but rather, the "truth" of math. The example 1+1=2 was used by the OP as a universal truth, and my point was simply there's no such thing as a universal truth. All propositions generally accepted a "truths" are conditional. Pax...
Thank you for finally recognizing my point, which really had nothing to do with math, but rather, the "truth" of math. The example 1+1=2 was used by the OP as a universal truth, and my point was simply there's no such thing as a universal truth. All propositions generally accepted a "truths" are conditional. Pax...
Conditional is not the right word. Math is always true, the example noted does not show conditional truth, simply that details matter. What are the details (or in mathspeak significant figures and rounding) of 1...
A is A - "Reality is reality" is a tautology of no significance meaning everything known and unknown and not reducing entropy.Reality is always true.
Tell that to the Maquis.
Someone didn't believe that 1+1=2 is a 'universal truth.'
A is A - "Reality is reality" is a tautology of no significance meaning everything known and unknown and not reducing entropy.