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| - | ======making new numbers====== | + | <WRAP right>[[teaching:topics:number:axioms#there are important non-numbers]]</WRAP> |
| + | ===making new numbers=== | ||
| //Sometimes you can. Sometimes you cannot.// | //Sometimes you can. Sometimes you cannot.// | ||
| While exploring and developing our idea of [[teaching:topics:number:axioms:#what is a number|number]] we have invented new numbers that allow us to | While exploring and developing our idea of [[teaching:topics:number:axioms:#what is a number|number]] we have invented new numbers that allow us to | ||
| give answers to questions that we previously could not answer with a number. | give answers to questions that we previously could not answer with a number. | ||
| + | == == | ||
| Maybe you are a farmer (thousands of years ago) and you want to divide your field into three equal parts, you measure distance | Maybe you are a farmer (thousands of years ago) and you want to divide your field into three equal parts, you measure distance | ||
| by 'chains' in your part of the world. There is actually a chain kept at the surveyor's house which is | by 'chains' in your part of the world. There is actually a chain kept at the surveyor's house which is | ||
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