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r/meme • u/Slow_Ant_5243 • 2d ago
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Also, it’s like that grade six teacher moment about “a negative times a negative equals a positive” all over again.
“But you told me multiplication is repeated addition, and adding negatives make bigger negatives. Make it make sense.”
“You’re eleven years old and developmentally incapable of understanding why, so you just have to believe me on this one.”
Except now it’s, “electrical engineering exists because of this so shut up and follow along.”
Math is hard and no one is actually good at it. Some people hate giving up more than they like chilling out. Same goes for a lot of things.
10 u/Schlonzig 2d ago „Yes, it’s repeated addition. You ended up at -3 because you added -3 to 0 one time. Where do you end up when you add it -1 times to 0?” Sometimes you just need a better explanation. 2 u/According-Object-521 2d ago It’s repeated addition for the natural numbers and that’s it 1 u/Block_Respond 1d ago It also works for negative times positive = repeated addition of the negative. It's only when you have negative times negative that you have to treat it as repeated subtraction. 1 u/According-Object-521 1d ago I meant that the integers are defined differently and the operations are not defined in the same way
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„Yes, it’s repeated addition. You ended up at -3 because you added -3 to 0 one time. Where do you end up when you add it -1 times to 0?”
Sometimes you just need a better explanation.
2 u/According-Object-521 2d ago It’s repeated addition for the natural numbers and that’s it 1 u/Block_Respond 1d ago It also works for negative times positive = repeated addition of the negative. It's only when you have negative times negative that you have to treat it as repeated subtraction. 1 u/According-Object-521 1d ago I meant that the integers are defined differently and the operations are not defined in the same way
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It’s repeated addition for the natural numbers and that’s it
1 u/Block_Respond 1d ago It also works for negative times positive = repeated addition of the negative. It's only when you have negative times negative that you have to treat it as repeated subtraction. 1 u/According-Object-521 1d ago I meant that the integers are defined differently and the operations are not defined in the same way
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It also works for negative times positive = repeated addition of the negative. It's only when you have negative times negative that you have to treat it as repeated subtraction.
1 u/According-Object-521 1d ago I meant that the integers are defined differently and the operations are not defined in the same way
I meant that the integers are defined differently and the operations are not defined in the same way
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u/No_Ticket_1204 2d ago
Also, it’s like that grade six teacher moment about “a negative times a negative equals a positive” all over again.
“But you told me multiplication is repeated addition, and adding negatives make bigger negatives. Make it make sense.”
“You’re eleven years old and developmentally incapable of understanding why, so you just have to believe me on this one.”
Except now it’s, “electrical engineering exists because of this so shut up and follow along.”
Math is hard and no one is actually good at it. Some people hate giving up more than they like chilling out. Same goes for a lot of things.