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Originally written in 1998, the complete "Original Ten Commandments" was much too long to re-type completely as a GodFather of Math page
Were the OTC to have given a fresh start within my blogs, a more accurate title would have been "The Pythagorean Ten Commandments" but the actual Pythagoreans had the equivalent of fifteen commandments which bear absolutely no resemblance to the above.
"Matt Maddox" is a pun which dates back to at least 1977
As for the missing commandments:
The importance of 4 can be measured by how many chairs and tables have Four legs
8 is the first cubic number, that is 8 = 2 x 2 x 2
9 is the court jester responsible for a wide variety of math tricks
10 would have been an ornery number if we were born with something other than ten fingers and ten toes
The importance of 1 is enough to give it a comment page of its own
It is Numero Uno, that is, it is the number that refers to each and every self amongst us
Without 1, there would be no ego
ONE is also ONederful and has the power of invisibility. For example, every number in the OTC van be regarded as a fraction with an invisible denominator of 1
Originally written in 1998,
ReplyDeletethe complete "Original Ten Commandments"
was much too long to re-type completely
as a GodFather of Math page
Were the OTC to have given a fresh start
within my blogs, a more accurate title
would have been "The Pythagorean Ten Commandments"
but the actual Pythagoreans had the equivalent
of fifteen commandments which bear absolutely
no resemblance to the above.
"Matt Maddox" is a pun which dates back to
at least 1977
As for the missing commandments:
The importance of 4 can be measured
by how many chairs and tables have Four legs
8 is the first cubic number,
that is 8 = 2 x 2 x 2
9 is the court jester
responsible for a wide variety
of math tricks
10 would have been
an ornery number if we were born with
something other than ten fingers
and ten toes
The importance of 1
Deleteis enough to give it a comment page
of its own
It is Numero Uno, that is,
it is the number that refers
to each and every self
amongst us
Without 1, there would be no ego
ONE is also ONederful
and has the power of invisibility.
For example, every number in the OTC
van be regarded as a fraction
with an invisible denominator
of 1
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