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| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Aaron Scott: MASSIVE Pet Peeve Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| If there is one (1) thing I HATE, yea, two (2) that are an abomination, it is that group of three or four (3 or 4) MILLION (1,000,000) people that need be beaten by ten (10) baseball bats at once. Do they think we can read numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...), but not words? Are they missing half (1/2) of their brain? I mean, if a person can't read words, how far do you imagine they will get with numbers (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9...)? |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Cojak: |
| I have read this two (2) times and still do not get the peevy point! Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/ |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | bonnie knox: |
| I'm laughing at Cojak's joke, but I did actually have to read it 2 (two) times, myself.I actually like the reinforcement. Whenever I see a very large number, I have to count in groups of 3 (three) from the right to determine if it's a million (1,000,000) or what-have-you. Also, if one (1 person in general)makes a typo and has one (1) letter off in a word, we can usually figure it out from context, but if one (1) digit is off in a number, we're sunk unless we have that parenthetical explanation. The other thing is that, when spoken, million (1,000,000) and billion (1,000,000,000) are not very distinct from one (1) another. Ha, that last |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | bonnie knox: |
| It's actually against Acts-celerate policy, but it's also just not masculine to do it or to point out that someone else has done it. |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Aaron Scott: Bonnie, if there's one (1) thing I can't stand... |
| It's folks like you making excuses for the other seven (7) billion (1,000,000,000) people in the world for doing things this way.Another thing, too (2...wait a minute), is that when you have to have numbers (1,2, 3,4,5, 6, 7, 8, 9....) to reinforce your understanding, you will likely need WORDS to reinforce your math (+, -, x, /), and then everything becomes a messy word problem (Bonnie). |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | bonnie knox: |
| Words do reinforce math. No truer words were spoken. When you know that of means times (x), it makes word problems a lot simpler.Is means equals (=).What means a variable (n).For example, twenty-five (25) IS WHAT percent OF seventy-five (75)?25 = N% x 75 |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | bonnie knox: (L) |
| Aaron, you're gonna love this. I read a while back about a culture that doesn't have numbers. Small quantities are called one or two. Beyond that, they just say many.www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714111940.htmSo, maybe subtract three hundred (300) from the seven billion (7,000,000,000) other people in the world who are putting numbers in parentheses. |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Aaron Scott: How does "of" mean times? |
| Re: How does "of" mean times? |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | bonnie knox: |
| Well, I wouldn't use of there. I would just say 144, lol (if I could remember it). I was thinking more of the example I used above. |
| Author: | acts [ Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | roughridercog: My pet peeves? |
| Habitually late peoplePeople who clip their nails are in churchStarting all services local or state latePeople who pass me and slow downStopping at SAMs Club sample tables and talking endlessly to the server. MUNCH AND MOVE!!!!!I will probably think of others late |
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