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Numbers
Numbers are our way to quantify, label, and organize the world around us in a logical manner. However, the systems used to obtain this goal differ geographically, historically, and by relative utility. All questions pertaining to numbers, including historic labeling systems, bases of numerical systems, constants, and the various ways they're grouped together, should be placed into this category.
46,867 Questions
What number ccan be a zip code number?
Basically, any group of 5 or 9 numbers referring to an address.
How do you explain how consecutive whole numbers work in decimals to a 11 year old?
Whole numbers do not contain decimals or fractions because they are integers in the form of: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 .... etc
What is the importance of zero in numbers?
For positional place value purposes as for example to distinguish the difference between 207 and 27
42 is a whole number and is already in its simplest form.
What is the numbers that is 200000000 less than 382930400239?
382930400239 − 200000000 = 382730400239
How do you say 37251285 in word form?
Thirty seven million, two hundred and fifty one thousand, two hundred and eighty five
How did the need of whole number and then negative number arise?
Whole numbers seem obvious to me. Even in prehistoric times, how many chickens do I have? Let's trade. I'll give you 5 chickens for one goat. How can you trade without some form of counting? Maybe they didn't use numerals like we do (maybe 5 was just five straight lines) but they had some method for counting and representing numbers.
Negative numbers is much more recent. Chinese wrote about negatives more than 2000 years ago. The Greeks considered them even before that, but dismissed them as meaningless. The Indians (from the country India) first understood their importance especially in terms of debt for what we now call bookkeeping or accounting. But they are needed in many other areas as well. Gabriel Fahrenheit made a thermometer and (by the story I've heard) set zero as the coldest thing he could get in his instrument making shop, a mixture of ice and salt. But there are colder days. In the winter temperatures get "below zero". These are negative numbers.
How do you writs 248.60153 in words?
Two hundred forty-eight and sixty thousand, one hundred fifty-three hundred-thousandths.
How do you use a numberline to tell which of two integers are smaller?
With the number line in its normal orientations, the integer on the left is smaller.
Are both numbers 39 and 1 composite numbers?
39 is a composite number because it has more than two factors, and 1 is not a composite number because it has just one factor.
What does it mean when people say you divided by zero?
It means that your not making any sense? Cause you can't divide a number by zero.
How do you write 2010 Roman numerals?
MMX is the number 2010 in roman numerals. Here M is 1000 and X is 10.
