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Theoretical Mathematics; addition and subtraction
Topic Started: Nov 23 2013, 09:48 AM (590 Views)
freebeesting
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Theoretical Mathematics
numbers are added together
numbers come from nowhere

Reality Mathematics
number of objects are limited to existence
all added objects were subtracted from somewhere else.

addition = subtraction


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yass
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I love you too freebeesting.

Brings to mind a memory from about the mid-nineties. I'd won a court case, and when filling out paperwork to have the funds awarded me by the court garnished from my landlord's bank account there was a spot to enter post court award interest which was 11% from the day I won the case, so, the longer it took to get the money, the more the interest it would accumulate, however, I didn't know how to calculate it. 'No problem', I thought, 'I'll just call my local bank branch and they can help me with it and tell me how to calculate it.'

I called my bank branch and the man (bank officer) I spoke with said he couldn't do the calculation or tell me how to do it and that it was their loan department I wanted to speak to. So, I took the number and called the bank's loan department.

The lady I spoke with said she couldn't do the calculation or tell me how to do it. She said "Look, when someone wants to buy a house or car I punch in some things to the computer (a program) and it calculates the interest for the transaction."

I was stumped and mystified that these bank officers couldn't tell me how or what I should be charging for this post-court award interest.

I thought more and decided to call the University. I called and asked for the math department. When I reached someone she said that I called the wrong department and that the math department was concerned with counting the stars and things like that. She said that it's the business administration that I want and gave me the number.

I called and reached a man and told him of my plight and asked if he could help me to figure the interest. He was absolutely amazed by the story that led up to calling him and thought it was just incredible. He gave me the interest amount I needed to put down on the paper and told me that it would change over time because as the interest accrued it would be a larger sum of money on which to calculate the interest.

He may have told me how it was done but I can't remember that if he did or I may not have registered it due to some inability to absorb or process the information, but I had what I needed for the time being.

I didn't need to do any future recalculating because I finally managed to figure out what my landlord's new bank was due to a current resident of his apartments who dropped by asking me if I would babysit for her. I asked if she knew what the landlord's new bank was then she thought and remembered he'd bought something from her boyfriend and paid by check and after thinking a few moments was able to tell me the name of the bank.

I got back what he wrongfully withheld from me (was granted twice the amount he originally owed me per the law) plus every filing charge I paid including the unsuccessful garnishment filing for the bank he used to have when I lived there. One day I walked out to the mailbox and there was a sweet check in it for the amount of $669.83 He only owed me $270 in the first place but decided not to give it to me.

I was lucky to be able to take him to court. After arriving from California and taking the place of the professional property management company that the tenants of the complex had all initially rented through he came around with new contracts to sign. I was the only one, it turned out, who insisted on reading the contract first. He'd put my $300 deposit in the 'non-refundable' column.

Everyone else learned the hard way after they'd signed the contract never guessing that he'd play a trick like that.
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yass
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I should add that it wasn't as simple as calculating the interest on x-amount of dollars which any of us could have done. It was something about the time and interest from the date of the court decision that made it difficult to process and was a bit complex for me (I was unsure of how to work out the problem). I wish I had the paper in front of me now with the wording but alas I don't. I did think it would be simple for those who worked with interest or math.
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wow, i totally empathize because math is definitely not my thing. Weird because it looks so interesting and i always wanted to understand it, just never worked out. or maybe never had a teach that could explain it in a way i could understand.

you can place the blame for all that 'nobody knows' on New Math. have always heard teachers hated it because they felt it was wrong. guess now we see the results of all that new math. our country is so low on the education level now, pitiful.

congrats on winning your court case! tired of all those that nickel and dime us all the time.
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I am advocate of mathematics. However, I think a numeric approach to things helps support the technical aspects of the analytical of a more and the all encompassing of all creations -- elements.

If you can grasp the infinite aspects of elements and have a good grasp on mathematics then you, in my pion thinking, are more than a super genius.
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