Who is your role model?

[BigBassin144]

Originally Posted by nofearengineer

Anthony....from the bottom of my heart.......

Right back at ya Bryce!

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[1/4 stick]

Originally Posted by nofearengineer

Basically, it works like this:

Take the number 9. Let's look at it is 09. This shows the ones place and the tens place. 9 ones and zero tens. The sum of the digits adds to 9 obviously.

Well, because 9 is 10-1...(remember the base 10 thing), when you add another nine, you are subtracting one from the ones place and adding one to the tens place. Hence, the sum of the two place digits never changes.

And because you only ever change two place digits (ones, tens, hundred, thousands, etc.) by adding 9, this is true for all multiples of 9, however large the number.

I only bring up other number bases because we like the base 10 system. This has a lot to do with us having 10 fingers. If we had 12 fingers, our system would probably be base 12, in which case we would have single charactera for ten and eleven, instead of two digits, and twelve would then show as "10". In that case, 11 (the single character for it) would be the special number, and would behave exactly like 9 does in our system.

Oh well, enough nerdity for one day...I'm home sick again...this is getting very old.

Wow! I actually understood that!

[MallenManson]

Originally Posted by 1/4 stick

Wow! I actually understood that!

I quit reading 1/2 way through

[1/4 stick]

Originally Posted by MallenManson

I quit reading 1/2 way through

I shoulda asked, "What if we use our toes?"

[Justin2729]

ROFL. hilarious

[Cavs1123]

LOL...Mallen you are ONE of my role models...*coughs "not"*

Ike is my role model! NEVER GIVE UP!!!!