Re: Laws of Mathematics
Jan 14, 1997 07:52 PM
by Bart Lidofsky
Murray Stentiford wrote:
>
> Tom,
>
> [Bart]
> >take the following: -500 = -1000. Is that correct? If you are talking about
> >temperature in the Farhenheit scale, then yes, it is.
>
> [Tom]
> That a temperature of -500 might be equivalent to a temperature of -1000
> does not make -500 equivalent to -1000.
>
> Just to add to the picture, the physical absolute zero is -459.7 degrees
> Farhenheit.
>
> I would ask Bart; what mathematical operation was used to obtain the -500
> and -1000 and to say they are the same temperature?
Because both are undefined.
Bart Lidofsky
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