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Tyrell Andrews
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Now that I have been reading this book more often, I am coming more engaged in algebra than every before. I noticed that every problem I do in quadratics makes me realize that none of these number would've been here without the Pythagorean people (they invented the Golden Ratio). Even though our number system isn't based off just one ancient country, we still have these same ways of counting today.
— Feb 21, 2014 12:06PM
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Tyrell Andrews
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I went back to chapter 4 because I noticed that I was reading the book but, not interpreting the book so this post won't be like the previous one because I am relearning what I have previously read
— Apr 04, 2014 11:52AM
Tyrell Andrews
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Now that the gist of the book is coming to me more frequent. Now in the book it is during the Aristotle time frame, Aristotle will never accept the idea of zero (that's why I believe Greek math wasn't advanced back in those days). Aristotle was the smartest philosopher of that time and had figured out a way to even classify and know what metal it is. Aristotle's decision put the growth of math back thousand of years
— Mar 21, 2014 11:44AM
Tyrell Andrews
is on page 12 of 248
This book so far has been a challenge for me being a 9th grader reading because it has such an advance placement on the numerical system but, it mentions a caveman named gog, gog was a man that creatred the latest record of counting on his bone. The early counters used a diffrent system of numbers, they counted one, two, two-one,two-two, and so on to count but, the point is that zero has dated back to before time.
— Feb 11, 2014 12:05PM
