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Anonymous Sat Sep 3 11:48:23 2011 No.3677370 [Reply] [Original]

Name a bigger negative number than -12.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 11:49:23 2011 No.3677377 -12.1

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 11:50:23 2011 No.3677380 -11.9

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 11:50:23 2011 No.3677381 Larger value, or larger absolute value?

>>	EK !EKFQOBUFnQ Sat Sep 3 11:51:23 2011 No.3677382 File: 5 KB, 383x186, wait,what.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3677377 >>3677380 one of these is correct, but i'm not sure which one. damn you OP and your ambiguously worded question!

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 11:51:57 2011 No.3677390 -1

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 11:59:23 2011 No.3677421 A negative number that is bigger. -11.9 is correct

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 12:04:23 2011 No.3677441 >>3677421 -11.9 is not bigger than -12. It is greater, but it is smaller.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 16:56:23 2011 No.3678867 2i + 1

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 19:26:23 2011 No.3679535 -11

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:01:23 2011 No.3679692 >>3677382 Shut up, rose.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:07:23 2011 No.3679718 >>3677370 Bigger seems more like a qualitative measure than quantitative to me. So 9001 is a bigger number. It has more digits and takes up more space on screen.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:09:23 2011 No.3679723 >>3679718 not negative though

>>	μαθμαν - the enlightened undergraduate !!vnLoxcfyRGs Sat Sep 3 20:11:23 2011 No.3679734 -5.001

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:11:23 2011 No.3679736 >>3677370 Define "Bigger". Define "Negative" Define number system to which your "Number" pertains. Else you are an incoherent idiot.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:14:23 2011 No.3679755 File: 46 KB, 569x571, 1298437376123.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3679734 >Using greek to spell out English words

Josef crossed the Atlantic !!nUf2NflSAyw Sat Sep 3 20:23:23 2011 No.3679804

<span class="math">-10[/spoiler] is negative.
<span class="math">-10>-12[/spoiler].
Therefore, <span class="math">-10[/spoiler] is a bigger negative number than <span class="math">-12[/spoiler].
(How can this thread possibly confuse people!?)

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:25:23 2011 No.3679815 >>3679804 >(How can this thread possibly confuse people!?) Because, my little german friend, in English the exact definition of "bigger" is fairly ambiguous when used in this situation.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:25:23 2011 No.3679816 -13

>>	Josef crossed the Atlantic !!nUf2NflSAyw Sat Sep 3 20:26:23 2011 No.3679819 >>3679815 How lucky I am that this is a math question.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:26:23 2011 No.3679823 >>3679804 I owe Sarah $10. You owe me $12. Which is the greater negative number? -12 is a greater debt.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:28:23 2011 No.3679833 It's amazing how /sci/ can be trolled by simple math.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:30:23 2011 No.3679844 >>3679819 It is not a math question, because 'bigger' is not a standard math term.

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:35:44 2011 No.3679859 ITT: Butthurt math failures

>>	Anonymous Sat Sep 3 20:36:23 2011 No.3679866 >>3679833 > It's amazing how /sci/ can be trolled by simple semantics. FTFY

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