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Many years ago why did people find they needed negative numbers?
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What was the middle class during the postwar years?
During the post-war years the middle class was growing in numbers.
Why were the common people more important to the nobles after the Hundred Years War?
Their services were needed because of the many deaths during the war
How do people impact the enverment?
I will give you one good example. In recent years people have bought pythons and when they get too big they have released them into the swamp. Now, there are thousands of pythons in the swamps eating everything they can find. Their numbers are growing because they are breeding and the naturalist can’t keep up with the numbers that are breeding.
How did the Hundred Years War give more power to the common people?
A King needed to keep his respectability as an afterthought; a ruler who lost the trust of his masters wouldn't be best any longer.
Why was ancient Rome continuously ruled by kings for 240 years?
The kings established themselves there an managed to hold power - accepted by the people who needed their leadership to protect them from the surrounding hostile and predatory peoples.
Why do bc years countdown?
B.C. years are like negative numbers on a numberline counting down then counting up again once it hits A.D. (A.D. years are positive numbers on a number line)
Why do you estimate when adding or subtracting decimal numbers?
In more than 40 years as a mathematician, I have never needed to do so.
How was the calendar related to math?
Because math are numbers which are needed to work out years, months, weeks and days of the calendar
Which people created a number system?
Numbers have been used by primitive humans for hundreds of thousands of years. Numbers are apparently needed for calculating how many fish hunters have in storage, how many fish are being consumed each day, and many other calculations necessary for their survival.
How many negative years are there?
Well, not negative. But most people use the Gregorian Calendar. And whe use BC and AC to indicate Before and After Christ, but does not mean the Before are negative years. It's just an event in history that set a mark for calendars.
What does it mean to have a negative value when you are working with years?
If you are finding the year a certain number of years from a previous one (e.g. 4000 years from the current year, 2010) then a negative value indicates time BCE (as opposed to CE). Some people prefer to call these BC and AD.
When were hand tools invented?
Hand tools go back thousands of years and were invented as people needed them.
How do you subtract the year 1846 from the year 100 bc?
1846AD - 100BC Think of 100Bc as a negative 100AD Hence 1846 - ( - 100) 1846 - - 100 We have a 'double negative' so this beco,es a positive (+) Hence 1846 + 100 = 1946
Why did Aztecs sacrifice people?
they would sacrifice people in ceromonies every 52 years because they believed they needed to do that in order for the sun to rise
How many years of college are needed to become a teacher in California?
Four Years are needed
Is it negative to ground or positive to ground?
On most cars and trucks made in the last 60 years it is negative ground.On most cars and trucks made in the last 60 years it is negative ground.
How many years of college experience needed to be in the WNBA?
How many years are needed in college to be in the WNBA?
